| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - But discretionary outlays would be 6.3 percent of GDP, among the lowest levels in history. (The lowest level was 6.2 percent in 1999, under Bill Clinton.) Back in the 1960s, before mandatory spending on programs such as Medicare began to take off, the discretionary part of the budget accounted for about 12 percent of GDP. But the Republican freeze-for-10-years would bring all U.S. government spend
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