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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

$916B is even an undercount, it's more like $1.5T. There's a bunch of related spending that gets distributed to other departments.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

indeed, if you take all the stuff that's adjacent, then it's a truly astronomical number