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Snapshots of Our Bloated Military Budget

The Pentagon has seriously misplaced priorities.

Lindsay Koshgarian

June 22, 2018

Congress is larding the Department of Defense with even more money than it asked for—and the Pentagon is the largest source of waste, fraud, and abuse in the government. Our missiles are smarter than our priorities. Displayed below are some salient examples of this misguided spending.

Lindsay KoshgarianLindsay Koshgarian is with the Institute for Policy Studies’ National Priorities Project, which provides authoritative reports on federal and state spending.


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