I believe it was adjusted. The CATO institute does good research.
This was discretionary spending. Bush had the highest amount of discretionary spending, Reagan the least.
Look, I liked President Bush too, I think he is a decent man. But no amount of spin will change the fact that he was a big spender.
Discretionary spending INCLUDES War/homeland security spending.
CATO is a LIBERTARIAN think tank and approaches all research from that perspective — which is why they’ve both consistently devalued (ridiculed) President Bush’s War/homeland security spending and refused to provide comparative benchmarks relative to spending as percentage of GDP/actual size of the economy vs previous administrations.