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They split data into three branches ( executive, judicative, legislative), only to show that they have data for the executive and not the other branches?

So that is at best a incomplete picture, and at worst a specific framing of a particular view.

I am neither endorsing nor rejecting what is happening (i am not American), just want to point this out here.

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The vast majority of it is in the executive branch. The judiciary's budget is around $10B; the legislative is about $7.

These branches don't do much with the country directly; they just work in their own office buildings. All of the actual managing of the country is done in the executive branch, so that's where all the money is.

The vast majority of that work is actually managing the rest of the money. That's why salaries are a mere $220B out of a $7,000B budget.

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