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Here's another chart.  I'm not sure what all is included in "Income Security" (and don't have the time to look it up right now) but it amounts to 5% of the national budget.

http://www.nationalpriorities.org/Proposed+Discretionary+Budget

edit:

 Oops.. my bad.  I was looking at discretionary spending.  I wanted the total spending which includes mandatory spending as well:



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