Education is the largest category of federal investment

Nondefense Investment by Category (Billions of 2019 Dollars)

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Note: Data for 1969–2018 are inflation-adjusted to 2018 using the Bureau of Economic Analysis GDP price index, then adjusted for fiscal year 2019 using the Congressional Budget Office’s CPI-U calculations.