[vonmoltke]

No, it doesn't. Slightly less than half of the discretionary portion of the budget goes to defense programs. The discretionary portion is only about 33% of the total budget, meaning defense programs take about 16% of the total budget.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget#/...

[behringer]

https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0070_discretionary_spendi...

Don't forget to include veterans benefits