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US Military Budget Allocation (Top Sectors)
Breakdown of major investment areas in the proposed $1.5 trillion budget.
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Trump's $1.5 trillion military budget: What taxpayers are getting ...
The Pentagon’s top budget official said Tuesday that the agency’s failure to pass eight consecutive audits shouldn’t stop Congress from approving the largest military budget in American history, a $1.5 trillion request that represents a 42% increase over current spending. Pentagon acting comptroller Jules “Jay” Hurst defended the Department of War’s audit record at a news briefing Tuesday, saying the problem wasn’t sloppy spending but the complexity of tracking decades-old assets. “Tracking obligations has never been an issue for us passing an audit,” he told reporters. “We buy a nuclear missile in the 1970s and then we have to account for the present-day value, which includes every single repair or modification we made of that missile over 50-plus years. That’s the kind of stuff that makes it hard for the department to get an audit; it’s not tracking our funding in the year of execution.” Hurst said he expects the Department of War to pass an audit by 2028, before the end of Trump’s second term. The $1.5 trillion request does not include costs related to the ongoing conflict in Iran or the special operation in Venezuela that led to the capture of former leader Nicolás Maduro. Trump is expected to request up to $100 billion more from Congress in a separate supplemental funding bill for Iran operations. According to Department of War budget documents released Tuesday, the proposal includes: $17.9 billion to begin building the Golden Dome missile defense shield; $65.8 billion for 18 new battle force ships and 16 support ships—the largest shipbuilding request since 1962; more than $74 billion for drone and counter-drone technologies, tripling FY26 spending and marking the largest such investment ever; more than $75 billion for the Space Force; $71.4 billion for the nuclear enterprise, including $16.2 billion for Columbia-class submarines, $6.1 billion for the B-21 stealth bomber, and $4.6 billion for the Sentinel ICBM program; $102 billion to grow air power, a 26% increase over FY26, including ramping F-35 procurement to 85 aircraft; $64.5 billion for land power including missiles, armored vehicles, and helicopters; over $20 billion for cyber capabilities; and $756.8 billion in defense industrial base investments to expand production capacity and supply chains. The budget also proposes $21.5 billion to repair and construct military barracks and family housing, and $45.7 billion for military medical readiness and healthcare. Hurst said the investment could gen...
How American taxpayers fund Trump's wars - Al Jazeera
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Trump's $1.5 trillion military budget: What taxpayers are getting
Trump is expected to request up to $100 billion more from Congress in a separate supplemental funding bill for Iran operations. According to Department of War ...
Americans have paid $16 BILLION more at the pump since Trump ...
Americans have paid $16 BILLION more at the pump since Trump began his illegal war with Iran. And that doesn't include the BILLIONS in U.S. tax dollars spent ...
