I see that the CR is dead again, thanks to right-wing Republican opposition. Ah well. Who needs farm aid in the Midwest and hurricane relief in the South?
But just to show what we're arguing about, here's yet another chart showing domestic spending by the federal government. This includes everything: discretionary spending, welfare entitlements, even stuff that's not strictly speaking domestic, like the State Department and Veterans Affairs. The trendline is for all years outside of recessions, since that's where we should be now:
This is actually kind of remarkable. Even including means-tested welfare, domestic spending has barely increased since the Reagan era. The trendline goes from 7.1% of GDP to 7.5% of GDP.
At the moment, we do still have a lump of COVID-era health spending that hasn't wound down yet. I've removed it to get an apples-to-apples comparison. We'll see how much of it, if any, is left in a few years.