"Mandatory" Spending

question 23

Multiple Choice

"Mandatory" spending

• A) includes entitlement programs but not interest on the national debt.
• B) includes entitlement programs and interest on the national debt.
• C) does not include entitlement programs but does include interest on the national debt.
• D) includes neither entitlement programs nor interest on the national debt.
• E) is the term used by political scientists for all money that the government spends.

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