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It doesn’t, which is why benefits are the biggest portion of US government spending.

https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-federal-budget-breakdown-3305...

>Mandatory expenditures, such as Social Security, Medicare, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program account for about 60% of the budget.

Technically Medicaid is from state governments or at least some portion of it, but it probably looks the same there.



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