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I believe you are incorrect about the US Army’s percent of the federal budget. Total defense spending (all branches) represents around 15% of the budget.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expenditures_in_the_United_Sta...

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Ah, great catch! I’m admittedly nowhere near an expert in this regard. I was looking at the US Discretionary spending budget, and mistakenly thought that was representative of the total budget

I was looking at the discretionary budget breakdown: https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0070_discretionary_spendi...

That number might be based on it's portion of discretionary spending? It is a large portion of that type of spending for sure.

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