Originally Posted by
Barry Charles
The US defense budget was 0.7 T out of $6.5T of congressional spending in 2020. Around 10%.
You are conflating discretionary spending with mandatory spending. Discretionary spending is defense, environment, education, etc. Mandatory spending is Obama care, Medicare, social security, Covid emergency, etc.
You can argue $700B is too much. A lot of people here agree. We point this out every few months, the only difference is your point (and the
intentional misrepresentation) becomes increasingly irrelevant as spending goes up.