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by eel 2239 days ago
The raw data can be gathered from congress.gov, but here's a summary graphic for 2019: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget#/...

It depends on your definitions of entitlements and military, but for example, social security spending was at $1.0 trillion compared to $676 billion for defense.
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pinkfoot 2239 days ago
Notice that veterans affairs and a lot of the DOE is filed under 'not military'.
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rumanator 2239 days ago
To be fair, some of the US's defense spending sounds like a way to covertly fund "socialist" programs in a way that's politically tolerable. For example, a bunch of weapons programs appear to be driven by the need to artificially create jobs in some precise locations.
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