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by tannerwj 2714 days ago
Where could I see numbers on this?
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Isn’t the CIA, NSA, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Coast Guard (which is not part of the Pentagon), etc. all part of national defense? You can look up the public portion of their budgets online. The VA should be counted too since it’s a cost of national defense.
Also things like interest on the amount of debt used to fight wars
Probably dwarfed by borrowing required for the tax cut now.