claim: in just a few decades, social security, medicare and medicaid, other mandatory spending programs, and paying interest due on the debt will eclipse our entire budget.
author: kurt schrader
evidence_1: best of all, medicare and social security escaped unscathed. ... in just a few  decades social security, medicare and medicaid, other mandatory spending  programs, and paying interest due on the debt will eclipse our entire budget. ...  indeed, even with the scheduled defense cuts we will still be spending many  hundreds of ...
evidence_2: in just a few decades, social security, medicare and medicaid, other ... spending  programs, and paying interest due on the debt will eclipse our entire budget. ...  the federal government "can cut all of the non-military discretionary spending  and ...
evidence_3: sep 25, 2018 ... the federal government could soon pay more in interest on its debt than it ... will  be due annually, easily outpacing spending on myriad other programs. ... the  deficit is expected to total nearly $1 trillion next year — the first time it ... budget a  decade from now, surpassing spending on medicaid and defense.
evidence_4: jun 29, 2017 ... on our current path, cbo projects that deficits will reach $1.0 trillion by 2022 and  ... the budget deficit will total $693 billion this year — $255 billion higher ... serve  older populations, such as social security, medicare, and medicaid. ... in debt not  due to a temporary war but because of growing spending on ...
evidence_5: nov 11, 2018 ... but the congressional budget office predicts interest spending will spike to ... to  spend more on interest than medicaid, national defense and a host of other ... on  debt interest than every nondefense discretionary federal program combined. ...  gross domestic product is expected to rise over the next decade.