It's much worse than that. Defense budget is hidden by breaking it down to many many different divisions. "Homeland Security" is defense with massive budget but

It's much worse than that. Defense budget is hidden by breaking it down to many many different divisions. "Homeland Security" is defense with massive budget but it's separate from Pentagon, DoD, etc. Anyone think the NSA budget for "defense" is included in Pentagon, DoD, Homeland Security? Anyone think the trillion dollars in weapons being sent to Ukraine for our proxy war with Russia is in any visible budget? Medicare meanwhile cannot hide all the spending, it's right there, even the fraud in the system is visible in the spending. But defense spending hides twice maybe even three times the spending.