The better question is about government priorities as they spend tax payer dollars.
Trump has big priorities, and while he claimed in the election campaigning that it was 'the forgotten rural parts of america', it is undeniable now that he will shift tax payer from them, harming them the most, to his selected Oligarchs who pay him tribute and give him personal gifts.
He is shifting the nations tax base recipients by giving exemption after exemption to the most wealthy Oligarchs while taking that tax money from rural hospitals and other social services that magats rely on more than any other.,
So i would say you have been fooled by this discussion into arguing 'are these expenditures "needed", "justifiable", "etc", from one of 'this is our tax money and it should benefit us".
BTW that is EXACTLY what top magat government officials want you to do. They would like you to go thru and say 'cut health care', 'cut education', 'cut all social spending', because you think it is not needed while NOT THEN SEEING they then give all those tax dollars to the uber rich. Which is why in Trumps 1st term the debt and deficit surged to new records even pre covid.
Even if you (collective "you") think the programs are wasteful and inefficient and need rationalization, if you do not care more that they are not taking these "Savings" and paying down the debt and instead are just making the 1% even richer than you are the dupe they were hoping for.