Studies that seek to define a “national security” budget – which includes the military, and also veterans’ affairs, homeland security, and similar expenses – can easily arrive at estimates approaching or exceeding $1 trillion per year. military spending, traditionally defined, was $730 billion in 2019. In 2019, the militarized budget amounted to 64.5 percent of discretionary spending. military spending – which is primarily focused on current and potential conflicts abroad – to its analog here at home: spending on veterans of foreign wars, incarceration, immigration enforcement, and the war on drugs. This report takes note of that fact, and ties U.S. The United States is the single biggest military spender in the world.
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