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regularizationyesterday at 4:45 PM0 repliesview on HN

Even more

$859 billion to DoD

$339 billion Veterans benefits

Then when we look at the $952 billion in interest, a good chunk of that is due to past military spending.

Plus even more - tens of billions of the military nuclear budget is done via the DoE, not the DoD in the budget line.

There's always a hand waving that previous debts accumulated like veteran's benefits and military related debt interest are not military spending, but they obviously are.