There are at least 10 separate pots of money dedicated to fighting wars, preparing for yet more wars, and dealing with the consequences of wars already fought. So the next time a president, a general, a secretary of defense, or a hawkish member of Congress insists that the US military is woefully underfunded, think twice. A careful look at US defense expenditures offers a healthy corrective to such wildly inaccurate claims.
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Base-budget total: $554.1 billion
War-budget total: $173.8 billion
Nuclear-budget total: $24.8 billion
Defense-related-activities total: $9 billion
Veterans Affairs total: $216 billion
Homeland Security total: $69.2 billion
International-affairs total: $51 billion
Intelligence-budget total: $80 billion
Defense share of national debt total: $156.3 billion
Is that the Base Budget or Base + War? The numbers get a bit blurred.
Either way, I routinely see these budgets leave out Homeland, Intelligence, Vet Affairs, and associated Debt-financing costs. With those, its been cracking a trillion/year since the Bush Admin.
America’s Defense Budget Is Bigger Than You Think: Each year, Congress approves hundreds of billions of dollars for the US defense budget—but the real number exceeds $1 trillion.
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Final tally: $1.2542 trillion
fuck
And this is old too. Base budget is already teetering on $800 billion
Is that the Base Budget or Base + War? The numbers get a bit blurred.
Either way, I routinely see these budgets leave out Homeland, Intelligence, Vet Affairs, and associated Debt-financing costs. With those, its been cracking a trillion/year since the Bush Admin.