Riley Moore (R-WV) assured that Republicans in both the House of Representatives and the Senate will cooperate in moving President Donald Trump’s agenda forward, in which “mandatory spending ...

“I think we can do all of these things that we’re discussing, and that’s the idea here of doing one big, beautiful bill, as the president has called it, and we can reduce mandatory spending ...

In contrast, the “mandatory” category is primarily made up of benefit programs whose spending is based on statutory formulas, including Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and means-tested ...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated in a report on Monday that the federal government racked up a deficit of $127 billion last month. The CBO estimated the federal budget deficit ...

Labor has had a longstanding policy opposing mandatory sentencing, yet yesterday passed tough anti-hate crime laws that will impose minimum jail sentences. Labor’s opposition to mandatory ...

Australia has introduced strict laws to combat hate crimes, introducing mandatory minimum sentences for a range of terrorism offenses and displaying hate symbols, following a spate of antisemitic ...

A Social Security building. The federal budget of the United States government is a mixture of mandatory spending categories and discretionary spending across departments, programs, and branches.

Most federal spending comes from mandatory spending programs such as Social Security and Medicare as well as interest on the national debt. DOGE has thus far focused on areas included in ...

Discretionary spending only accounts for about a quarter of the federal budget. Mandatory spending and the interest the government pays on its mounting debt account for the rest. Until 2010 ...