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title: "Appendix A: Views on federal program spending, 2001-2017"
description: "[![](https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/04/91.png)](https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2017/04/24/with-budget-debate-looming-growing-share-of-public-prefers-bigger-government/attachment/91/)"
date: "2017-04-24"
authors:
  - name: "Seth Rubenstein"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2017/04/24/appendix-a-views-on-federal-program-spending-2001-2017/"
categories:
  - "Economic Policy"
  - "Government Spending & the Deficit"
---

# Appendix A: Views on federal program spending, 2001-2017

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