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White House requests $842B for DoD in 2024, a 3.2% increase over ‘23

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The White House has submitted a fiscal year 2024 budget to Congress requesting $886.4 billion in total national defense spending , with $842 billion specifically for the Defense Department, or an increase of slightly more than 3% above what lawmakers enacted for FY-23, according to the Office of Management and Budget. The DOD request, sometimes called the “051” number, is 3.2% or $26 billion higher than what Congress enacted in FY-23. The national defense request, which is sometimes called the...

 
Also, at the height of the Reagan buildup in the 1980s the US was spending 6.8% of GDP on defense. If we spent that today that’d be over $1.7T. The US has huge room for defense spending ramp up.
Also, defense spending is currently well below its historical average of 4% as a share of GDP. 1Trillion defense budget actually makes a lot of sense.

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