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WASHINGTON, April 3 (UPI) -- Spending by the U.S. government is growing faster than the country's economy and reaching a pace not seen since the FDR administration, USA Today reported.
Federal government spending taking up nearly 21 percent of the economy, and is about 2.4 percent higher than when President George Bush took office. That rate of expansion is the largest since the Depression- and World War II-era Roosevelt administration.
Given that the Republican Party, which generally touts budgetary control, leads both the Congress and the White House, some conservatives have voiced concern.
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who resigned last year as director of the Congressional Budget Office, told USA Today, "Budgeting is about making choices and this period is one that shows a complete absence of that."
The newspaper said hurricane relief, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks added to the increase but spending has also grown for the U.S. military and large benefits program.
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