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I believe you are incorrect about the US Army’s percent of the federal budget. Total defense spending (all branches) represents around 15% of the budget. Sourc
by tumba 7y ago
I believe you are incorrect about the US Army’s percent of the federal budget. Total defense spending (all branches) represents around 15% of the budget.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expenditures_in_the_United_States_federal_budget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expenditures_in_the_United_Sta...
- rtkwe 7y agoThat number might be based on it's portion of discretionary spending? It is a large portion of that type of spending for sure.
- thebradbain 7y agoAh, great catch! I’m admittedly nowhere near an expert in this regard. I was looking at the US Discretionary spending budget, and mistakenly thought that was representative of the total budget I was looking at the discretionary budget breakdown: https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0070_discretionary_spending_categories https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0070_discretionary_spendi...