This Is How The Pentagon Got An $850 Billion Budget

 

Stephen Semler, Substack: How we got to an $850 billion Pentagon budget  

How we got to an $850 billion Pentagon budget  

Situation The Senate might vote on the fiscal year 2023 military budget this month. Or it might not; nobody’s sure. What’s for certain is that the bill the Senate considers will have at least as much as $850 billion for the Pentagon. In other words, we’re staring down a $72 billion year-to-year increase in military spending with this legislation: The FY2022 version of the same bill (National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA) licensed $778 billion for the Pentagon.  

How we got to an $850 billion Pentagon budget 

In March, Joe Biden proposed increasing annual military spending by $35 billion—to $813 billion—as part of his FY2023 budget request. In June, the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) added another $37 billion on top of that before advancing the $850 billion bill to the House floor for approval. 

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WNU Editor: When your foreign policy institutes and think-tanks that US lawmakers are dependent on for guidance and information are overwhelmingly funded by defense contractors, it then becomes very predictable on what recommendations will be forwarded.