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The "welfare" row excludes Medicaid (huge), CHIP, ACA, housing subsidies, school nutrition, & several other programs.

And assuming the charts incorporate state/local spending (it must for public order to be that big), welfare should be even larger.

In short, a garbage chart
Here is the *actual* federal antipoverty spending trend, using the relevant budget functions in the OMB Historical Tables.
Thus ends today's episode of "Gabriel Zucman posts blatantly dishonest data in an attempt to become a twitter celebrity economist."

Tune in for more tomorrow.
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