Johnson’s Great Society legislation caused controversy over what? a. civil rights legislation b. foreign policy c. government spending

Answer:

c. Government spending .

Explanation:

President Lyndon B. Johnson´s Great Society programs were many and large in scope, they significantly increased the federal budget, social spending and enlarged federal bureaucracy. Those were educational, healthcare, civil rights, infrastructure programs and others. To have an idea of how important they were, let´s remember that Medicare started in the 1960s. Critics pointed at the huge costs of the Great Society in years when the United States was fighting a distant and expensive war in Vietnam.