claim: "you look at defense … we're spending more than the rest of the world combined."
author: jon huntsman
evidence_1: mar 2, 2017 ... president trump has announced plans to increase the us defense budget in 2018 by $54 billion dollars in order to "rebuild the depleted military of the united states of america at a time we most need it". some have said that this figure is misleading and the actual increase is 'only' $18 billion. whatever the ...
evidence_2: jun 1, 2017 ... the united states spends more on national defense than china, saudi arabia, russia, united kingdom, india, france, and japan combined. ... in this set of charts, we aim to frame the financial condition and fiscal outlook of the u.s. government within a broad economic, political, and demographic context.
evidence_3: jan 13, 2016 ... "let me tell you something: the united states of america is the most powerful nation on earth. period. period. it's not even close. ... of the world total, sipri found. u.s. expenditures were nearly three times higher than china, the second-highest nation with an estimated $216 billion in military spending.
evidence_4: jan 7, 2013 ... below, we've provided an overview of the u.s. defense budget — to get a better sense for what we spend on, and where hagel might have to cut: business ... all told, the u.s. government spent about $718 billion on defense and international security assistance in 2011 — more than it spent on medicare.
evidence_5: apr 4, 2017 ... education aid and related social services were about $114 billion, or less than 3% of all federal spending. everything ... in general, and perhaps not surprisingly, defense spending consumes more of gdp during wartime (well over a third at the height of world war ii) and less during peacetime. the major ...