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Military spending is $934 billion in the 2021 budget. It's spread out among different agencies and budget categories, so you must add it all together. It includ
by BMSmnqXAE4yfe1 6y ago
Military spending is $934 billion in the 2021 budget. It's spread out among different agencies and budget categories, so you must add it all together. It includes:
Defense Department base budget: $636 billion.
DoD Overseas Contingency Operations: $69 billion.
Departments that support defense: $228 billion. They include the Department of Veterans Affairs ($93 billion), State Department ($48 billion), Homeland Security ($48 billion), FBI and Cybersecurity ($10 billion), and the National Nuclear Security Administration ($17 billion).
This is 63% of all the discretionary spending in the budget, i.e. the budget outside of mandatory payments such as Social Security.