A lot of the foreign aid the US does is kind of like this, where we're attempting to shift other countries to our way of life through a mix of direct aid, loans, news, and other methods.

There's a real long term ROI on these things where it's inarguably to the US' benefit that other countries want to speak English, use USD, operate businesses similarly to how we do, etc.

You can't cut $2T without cutting at least some "mandatory" spending or your interest payments, because the total of absolutely all your "discretionary" spending comes to a total of $1.7T.

Your "discretionary" spending includes your entire active military. Not the retired military, that's "mandatory" spending, but all your active military.

Your non-military "discretionary" spending is $0.9T, less than half of what people are talking about cutting.