FY 2016 total US government spending on welfare doubled in the 1960s 2.6% of the GDP spends over $1 trillion a year on welfare checks FY 2016 total US government spending on welfare Over a trillion dollars http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/welfare_spending billion FY 2016 total US government spending on welfare FY 2016 total US government spending on welfare http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/welfare_spending US welfare spending Medicaid vendor payments https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/welfare_spending https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/welfare_spending