How much does the U.S. spend on the military? A least 24% of the federal budget.
Rep. Adam Smith said in a town hall meeting with Indivisible Saturday (June 19) that 15% of federal spending goes to the military. I looked at the CBO’s data on federal spending at The Federal Budget in 2019: An Infographic. For 2019 it says that $676 billion was spent on “Defense” and that total federal…