Detailed Instructions: In this task, you're given a pair of sentences, sentence 1 and sentence 2. Your job is to write a single word that describes the genre that the two sentences belong to, such as face-to-face, government, letters, 9/11, slate, telephone, travel, verbatim, oup, fiction.
Q: Sentence 1: Relative to federal spending subject to annual appropriations-defense and nondefense discretionary spending-the share devoted to federal health programs and Social Security payments has grown steadily over time. Sentence 2: The portion of the budget going towards health and social programs has been slashed repeatedly over the years.
A:
government