The U.S. military budge pays the salaries, training, and health care of uniformed and civilian personnel, maintains arms, equipment and facilities, funds operations, and develops and buys new items. The 2023 U.S. military budget is $773 billion, an increase of 4% over 2022’s budget. The budget includes $177.5 billion for the Army, $194 billion for the Air Force and Space Force and $230.8 billion for the Navy and Marine Corps. Other country’s 2021 military budgets were China $293 billion, United Kingdom $68.4 billion and Russia $66 billion.
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Response rates from 4.8m America voters.
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37% Decrease |
35% Increase |
37% Decrease |
7% Increase, but only after our deficit is drastically reduced |
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@93GXLNM2yrs2Y
Streamline current spending and get rid of wasteful spending and only add funds accordingly
@93BQNDS2yrs2Y
Streamline current spending
@94977RP2yrs2Y
Streamline current spending and only add funds accordingly.
@93SGY5Y2yrs2Y
Streamline current spending and get rid of wasteful spending
@8CGQ8R54yrs4Y
Only increase during wartime and conflicts.
@9D6PYY31yr1Y
The government should audit military spending to minimize wasteful spending. After that is done then modifications to the budget can be made.
@8DPG3BX4yrs4Y
Keep the budget the same just reduce wasteful spending
@8HPMZ5V4yrs4Y
Decrease, our current military spending is extremely high and we could always cut back marginally, and also put a large sum of money back towards other areas that need funding such as healthcare and education.
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