How many years before the budget crosses 1 trillion $ ? I think definitely this decade
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)
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
Final tally: $1.2542 trillion