claim: the war spending bill "actually spends more money on the international monetary fund than on the war."
author: lynn westmoreland
evidence_1: jun 4, 2012 ... president bush signed the massive spending bill under which the government  was operating when obama took office. .... $26 billion for non-defense measures  (including funding for flu vaccine against the h1n1 virus, and for the international  monetary fund) in addition to $80 billion for the military. only a ...
evidence_2: british economist john maynard keynes spearheaded a revolution in economic  thinking that overturned the then-prevailing idea that free markets would ... that  aggregate demand—measured as the sum of spending by households,  businesses, and the government—is the most important driving force in an  economy.
evidence_3: during world war ii the government was again forced to borrow heavily in order  to finance war with the axis powers. after the war the debt gradually decreased  as a proportion of gdp, but in the 1970s, following a sterling crisis, the british  government was forced to seek help from the international monetary fund (imf).
evidence_4: oct 9, 2017 ... the war on terror cost more than $2.1 trillion. here are details on what was  spent each year, what happened, and its effect.
evidence_5: the most recent major report on these costs come from brown university in the  form of the costs of war, which totaled just over $1.1 trillion. the department of  defense's direct spending on iraq totaled at least $757.8 billion, but also  highlighting the complementary costs at home, such as interest paid on the funds  borrowed ...