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Blackvegetable » 30 Apr 2026, 6:26 am » wrote: ↑

30 Apr 2026, 6:26 am

Compared with past wars, and with the overall defense budget, $25 billion may not seem like a large sum. Congress gave the Defense Department $839 billion this year in normal appropriations and an extra $150 billion as part of its big tax and domestic policy spending bill last summer. In 2008, the United States spent $283 billion in a single year of war funding for the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts (in today’s dollars). 

But by almost any measure, the number is significant. It exceeds the annual budgets of numerous federal agencies. It amounts to around $190 for every U.S. household. It means that, in two months of war, the Pentagon has spent down more than its annual budget for munitions. 

And of course the war, now in a fragile cease-fire, is not over. “To state the obvious, $25 billion is not the final bill,” Travis Sharp, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, said in an email. “The tab is still open.” 

Even before the war began, military spending was close to a record high.



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