Pentagon Budget

The Pentagon’s Secret Budget

October 6, 2026 David Vine, Counter Punch. Educate! Austerity, Militarization, Pentagon Budget, Taxes, Trump Administration

News reports that next year’s U.S. military budget will top out at $1.5 trillion if President Donald Trump gets his way are misleading at best. The true total, if Trump’s proposal passes, could be at least $1 trillion higher. Long before Trump took office, U.S. taxpayers have spent far more on the Pentagon — and its wars — than most know. For decades, Congress, the White House, and the Pentagon have hidden the military’s true cost through little-known bureaucratic practices and budgeting tricks. Journalists, academics, and think tank experts have, with rare exceptions, perpetuated the problem by repeating “official” numbers that don’t come close to telling the full story.

US Determination To Achieve Full Spectrum Dominance Not In Decline

September 27, 2026 Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Pentagon Budget, Trump Administration, US Empire, US Hegemony

The claim that the United States is in a state of decline is a popular one and is often treated as being an axiomatic truth. The word “decline” is problematic, though. It gives an impression of weakness when the U.S. has the world’s most powerful military and the dollar is still the world’s reserve currency. Its recent actions indicate that while it faces significant crises, the Donald Trump administration and any administration coming after it will continue its wars of aggression and subterfuge, particularly in the absence of an equally strong opposing force.

Global Network Response To Trump’s ‘Weapons In Space’ Declaration

September 22, 2026 Bruce Gagnon, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. Educate! Pentagon Budget, Space, Trump Administration, weapons

The disclosure by US Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink that the US has deployed space weapons in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) confirmed what many had always thought and is a consequence of the competition between the USA and Russia-China over access to LEO. Whoever controls the increasingly limited parking spaces in LEO will be at a considerable advantage and will be able to see and direct weapons not only to targets in space but also on the Earth. Elon Musk is being paid to fill up LEO with military satellites as fast as possible for the US.

$54 Billion For Killer Robots? A Look Into DAWG

August 18, 2026 Anavi Khanna, National Priorities Project. Educate! DAWG, NDAA 2027, Pentagon Budget, Robots, Wars and Militarism

In the first 24 hours of the U.S. war on Iran, AI targeting tools powered by Palantir and Anthropic were used to strike over 1,000 targets. On July 12th, the U.S. military employed unmanned kamikaze drone boats for the first time in its history to strike a naval base in Bandar Abbas, Iran. These boats, employed for one-time use with a self-destructive goal, each cost nearly $1 million each. If Trump and his Pentagon get their way, robotic warfare will be the new normal. Buried in the Trump administration’s $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget request is a number that has stunned even seasoned defense watchers: a whopping $54.6 billion for the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group (DAWG).

Paper Tiger: The Failure Of America’s Trillion Dollar War Machine

August 13, 2026 Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, Scheer Post. Educate! Military Industrial Complex, Pentagon Budget, US Empire, US military

According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the United States spent $21 trillion on its military between 2001 and 2024 (in constant 2024 dollars), equal to the combined military spending of the next eighteen countries. Iran barely made that list at all, spending only 2% of what the US did, and SIPRI estimated Iran’s 2025 military budget at only $7.5 billion. So how is Iran holding its own against the multi-trillion-dollar US war machine? A critical difference between the US war on Iran and previous US and allied bombing campaigns against Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and now Gaza, is that the US and Israel have failed to destroy Iran’s air defense system and cannot fly warplanes over Iran without risking the loss of planes and pilots to enemy fire. Iran has wisely built its critical defense infrastructure underground, with arms factories, weapons stockpiles and launch sites sheltered safely beneath its impenetrable mountainous terrain.

Common Sense And The Pentagon Budget

August 1, 2026 Dennis Laich, Consortium News. Strategize! Antiwar Movement, Military Industrial Complex, Pentagon Budget, Wars and Militarism

The first sentence of Thomas Paine’s classic 1776 essay, Common Sense, urged the American people to challenge the legitimacy of the English Crown, something that had never been challenged before. He wrote: “Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them a great favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.” Two hundred and fifty years later, time and reason strongly suggest that the U.S. “defense” budget is out of control, unsustainable and absent of accountability.

The Effects Of The 1.5 Trillion Dollar Bloated War Budget On Hawaii

July 27, 2026 U.S. Army Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright, Popular Resistance. Educate! Congress, Hawaii, NDAA 2027, Pentagon Budget, US military

The U.S. “defense” budget is out of control, unsustainable and absent of accountability. Now, the U.S. House of Representatives has agreed to a 50% increase in the defense budget to $1.5 trillion. The Senate must approve it and will consider the massive DOD budget when they return from the August summer recess. The Pentagon cannot tell the American taxpayer where past mega-funding went, as it has unable to pass a financial audit as required by law -- something every other department of the federal government is able to do, nor will it be able to handle a budget twice as big as the previous year’s.

The Hidden Cost Of The US Military

June 20, 2026 Breakthrough News. Educate! Congress, military spending, Pentagon Budget, Transparency, United States

US President Donald Trump has proposed a $1.5 trillion military budget for the fiscal year 2027, which would increase the acknowledged budget for 2026 by 44%. While a roughly $500 billion increase would be unprecedented in modern US history, the idea that the military budget only recently hit $1 trillion is incorrect. US military spending has exceeded $1 trillion for many years. Adding $500 billion (and potentially $200 billion more to fund war in Iran), as the president has proposed, would take the total military budget up from $2 trillion to $3 trillion.

We Need A Guns And Butter Debate Over The Costs Of The Iran War

May 3, 2026 Michael Hudson, Counter Punch. Educate! Iran, Pentagon Budget, US military, Wars and Militarism

Sixty years ago, opposition to America’s war in Vietnam, a major attack concerned the costs of diverting U.S. resources away from social spending to the military, what was called Guns and Butter. I was the junior member of the Columbia University triumvirate headed by Seymour Melman and Terence McCarthy. We lectured widely, wrote in magazines such as Ramparts and newspapers. The New York Tribune still existed as an alternative to The New York Times, and regularly published our critiques in its interviews and on its editorial pages. Those mid-1960s were the days!

US Caribbean Military Costs Explode: $20 Million Daily

February 17, 2026 TeleSur, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Pentagon Budget, SouthCom, Trump Administration, US military

US Caribbean military costs have reached staggering levels under the ongoing deployment known as Operation Southern Spear (Lanza del Sur). Recent estimates place daily operational expenses above 20 million dollars at peak periods from mid-November 2025 to mid-January 2026. This massive outlay supports a naval buildup that at times concentrated 20 percent of the U.S. Navy’s surface fleet in the region. The effort projects power while targeting perceived threats to U.S. interests, including drug trafficking and sanctioned regimes. At the core stands the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group.

‘Peace President’ Trump Has Bombed Ten Countries

January 29, 2026 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. Resistance Report Donald Trump, Peace, Pentagon Budget, Wars and Militarism

Donald Trump claims to be a so-called “peace president”, but he has bombed more countries than any other US leader. After proudly renaming the Pentagon from the Department of Defense to the Department of War, Trump now plans to raise the US military budget from $1 trillion to a staggering $1.5 trillion. This means that, if Trump succeeds, the United States will soon spend more on its military than all of the other countries in the world combined, excluding China. This is deeply hypocritical, because in his January 2025 inauguration speech, as he started his second term as US president, Trump declared that he would be a “peacemaker”.

Why Can’t We Commit War Crimes And Destroy The Planet…

December 3, 2025 Lee Camp, Substack. Strategize! Austerity, Economic Security, Pentagon Budget, Wars and Militarism

Sometimes it doesn’t seem like two things are connected. But deep down you know they are. You try to grasp the correlation, but it’s elusive. …I think I’ve found the answer. Why can’t we, the United States, regularly blow up fishermen off the coast of Venezuela — without a judge, jury, or relevant jurisdiction — without 49% of American children languishing in or near poverty?? Why can’t we send tens of billions of dollars to help Israel commit genocide while also having affordable housing for Americans? Rather than the monthly mortgage payment on a typical home doubling since January 2020?

Pentagon And Military-Related Spending In Congressional Bill HR1

October 31, 2025 Costs of War Project, Brown University. Educate! Congress, Military Industrial Complex, military spending, Pentagon Budget

It is unusual for reconciliation bills, such as H.R. 1, to include substantial funding for the Department of Defense or other military-related programs in other departments. However, H.R. 1 breaks from precedent by allocating $156 billion to “national defense.” This is problematic for four main reasons: (1) It benefits weapons-makers and contractors more than service members; (2) It lacks details on specific spending categories, effectively making it a slush fund; (3) It incentivizes future lawmakers to skirt the regular budget process, which is more deliberative and transparent than the reconciliation process; and (4) It increases Pentagon and military-related spending by over 13 percent from FY25, pushing “national defense” spending beyond the $1 trillion mark.

Senate Advances Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’, Includes $150 Billion For Military

July 2, 2025 Dave DeCamp, AntiWar.com. Educate! Big Beautiful Bill, Congress, Pentagon Budget, Trump Administration, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

The Senate on Tuesday advanced a massive spending package, dubbed the “Big Beautiful Bill” by President Trump, that includes $150 billion in extra military spending. The bill passed in a vote of 51-50, with Vice President JD Vance casting the tie-breaking vote, as three Republicans — Senators Rand Paul (KY), Susan Collins (ME), and Thom Tillis (NC) — joined Democrats in voting against the sprawling piece of legislation. House GOP leaders have scheduled a vote for the bill on Wednesday and are hoping to get it to President Trump’s desk by this Friday, though uncertainty remains about how fast it will get through the chamber.

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