>would be very happy to massively cut defense expenditure, which is a vast slice of federal expenditure. Just to undersocre two details that are often forgotte

>would be very happy to massively cut defense expenditure, which is a vast slice of federal expenditure. Just to undersocre two details that are often forgotten in discussions about how huge the U.S military budget is: 1st: as a percentage of GDP per capita, the U.S. spends less than at least two other countries and only moderately more than several others that aren't normally considered war-loving. (Singapore and Qatar for example). 2nd and more important: Of the total U.S. federal budget, military spending is far from the largest single outlay. Social services in the form of health services in general, social security, income security and medicare in particular take up much, much more Together any one of them (except medicare but smaller only by a tiny margin) is larger than the total defense budget, in some of those cases by a huge margin. Hell, even the total federal education budget for 2023 was nearly the size of the total defense budget. Overall, of the total 6.3 trillion federal budget for 2023 at least, military spending accounted for just over 10%. A lot for a country as rich as the U.S. but not to the scale implied by a a lot of hyperbole.