claim: "one of the biggest causes of our soaring debt and economic insecurity ends up being pentagon spending. the budget for the pentagon consumes more than half of our discretionary spending."
author: dennis kucinich
evidence_1: feb 28, 2011 ... ... insecurity ends up being pentagon spending. the budget for the pentagon  consumes more than half of our discretionary spending." our ... "one of the  biggest causes of our soaring debt and economic insecurity ends up being  pentagon spending. the budget for the pentagon consumes more than half of ...
evidence_2: sep 25, 2018 ... tax cuts, spending increases and higher interest rates could make it harder ...  government will soon spend more on interest than on the military ... federal  debt could surpass the defense department budget in 2023. ... the deficit is  soaring now as the economy booms, meaning the .... “that party is ending.
evidence_3: feb 22, 2013 ... as the pentagon attempts to refocus the u.s. military strategy toward asia, the ...  over the last few years, washington has debated various deficit reduction ... $1  trillion worth of caps on all discretionary spending through fy2021, and ... and  non-defense budget functions, and it lowers their levels by an ...
evidence_4: oct 10, 2018 ... [1] federal spending rises by $150 billion annually[2] while ... if this debt brings  higher interest rates (as consensus economic theory ... what is causing the debt  rise? ..... since the 1980s, the pentagon budget has fallen from 6% to 3% of ... tax  proposal that covers more than half of the exorbitant federal cost.
evidence_5: jan 24, 2017 ... cbo projects that over the next decade, if current laws remained .... which is  higher than their average of 20.3 percent over the past 50 years. ... which is offset  somewhat by a decline in discretionary spending as a ... trillion) at the end of  2017 to 89 percent of gdp ($25 trillion) by 2027. .... military retirement.