U.S. military officials are calling for spending tens of billions of dollars in the next budget year on drones, air defense systems and fighter jets that have been a key part of fighting the Iran war.

Imagine in Iran that instead of spending their wealth – billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, [they] had spent that money helping the people of Iran. You’d have a much different ...

American military spending is a number people throw around constantly — especially when we’re at war or there’s a new budget bill on the table. That number can seem abstract in its massiveness, so let ...

Last week “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth insulted Americans by claiming that a 50 percent increase in the US military budget – from an incomprehensible one ...

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$1.5 trillion. With a “t.” That’s how much US president Donald Trump wants Congress to appropriate for military (falsely called “defense”) spending in 2027. And that number — there’s no other way to ...

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Leading Senate Democrats called Thursday for a major expansion of US military spending at the testimony by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who was briefing the Senate Armed Services Committee.

For the first time, spending by the U.S. treaty allies surpassed $1 trillion in 2025, adjusted for purchasing power, ...