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How many years before the budget crosses 1 trillion $ ? I think definitely this decade

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Black ops and other shit might actually drag it over the edge already. Some budgets are classified, other things don’t need to be budgeted for because money can be pulled in from alternate sources (drug trades)

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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.

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.

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

Final tally: $1.2542 trillion

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And this is old too. Base budget is already teetering on $800 billion

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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.

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fuck

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I thought it already had

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They’ve bugeted individual things for over $1 trillion, but that’s over multiple years. I think blurssr is talking about the budget being over $1 trillion within one year

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