claim: the u.s. is spending "one out of every six defense department dollars on afghanistan."
author: jon huntsman
evidence_1: afghanistan and pakistan. costs of war. 5 all calculations are made and reported in current dollars. the figures are rounded to the nearest billion dollars. 6 these are conservative estimates. there is considerable fuzziness in pentagon spending, and especially with regard to spending for pakistan in the dod budget.
evidence_2: may 28, 2015 ... these embeddable counters track how much the u.s. spends on a variety of programs that protect our future, from military to food assistance. do our nation's ... every hour, taxpayers in the united states are paying $4 million for cost of .... states are paying $57.52 million for department of defense in 2016.
evidence_3: jan 7, 2013 ... 1) the united states spent 20 percent of the federal budget on defense in 2011. budget defense. all told, the u.s. government spent about $718 billion on ... the chart above comes from the congressional budget office,* which points out that the spending caps in the budget control act of 2011 are likely to ...
evidence_4: aug 21, 2017 ... but even that higher figure leaves out some key expenses, such as the future costs of interest americans will owe for the money borrowed to finance the war in afghanistan. that alone could add trillions of dollars to the total tab. while the u.s. has a history of wartime taxation to finance military conflicts ...
evidence_5: defense department blows millions of dollars in afghanistan on the wrong camouflage. by nina burleigh on 6/21/17 at 2:08 pm. 0621_afghanistan_camouflage_01 a u.s. soldier from the 3rd cavalry regiment shields himself from the rotor wash of a uh-60 blackhawk helicopter after being dropped off for a mission with ...