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Your link says the US spent 874 Billion on National defense this year.

https://www.usaspending.gov/agency/department-of-defense?fy=2024

This link has a bit of a disparity. I’m too busy to figure out the difference now but maybe you can take a look.

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Yeah and that is an incredible amount of money, but at 13% of the budget, that still puts it fifth place in terms of categorical spending.

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