Question

If you add the three largest expenditures in the federal budget for 2012, how much of the budget did they make up?

Answer 1

Answer:

Medicare and Medicaid, Social Security, and Defense were the three major expenses for the 2012 budget of the United States.

The three expenses made up around 60 percent of the total budget.

The total cost for the three expenses was in the region of 2.4 trillion dollars.