I figured some expenses were hiding, but hadn't found enough of them yet.
I'm cobbling together some more data points here. They aren't all for the same year, but are close to recent.
- Veterans Affairs: ~160B [0]
- DHS: ~65B [1]
- "non-military intelligence spending" (I assume including a solid chunk of NSA and CIA): ~55B [2]
- FBI: ~8B [3]
- retirement from Treasury (for service before 1984. The reference is interesting!) ~8B [4]
This tallies up to an additional $296B or 8% (for 25% total).
The Project On Government Oversight has a similar table [5] that includes some of my items, some additional items, and excludes some of mine. It reaches a $1 trillion "National Security" budget, which shakes out to about 28% of spending.
Thanks for the linking and push to keep digging! The "Military budget and total US federal spending" section of the article linked in the parent was a good jumping off point for me, as well.
I'm cobbling together some more data points here. They aren't all for the same year, but are close to recent.
This tallies up to an additional $296B or 8% (for 25% total).The Project On Government Oversight has a similar table [5] that includes some of my items, some additional items, and excludes some of mine. It reaches a $1 trillion "National Security" budget, which shakes out to about 28% of spending.
Thanks for the linking and push to keep digging! The "Military budget and total US federal spending" section of the article linked in the parent was a good jumping off point for me, as well.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Ve... [1]: http://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/FY_2016_... [2]: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/02/02/black-budget-... [3]: http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/jmd/legacy/2013/1... [4]: http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB3005/index1.html [5]: http://www.pogo.org/our-work/straus-military-reform-project/...
EDIT: formatting