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The FY2024 budget has $1.1 trillion for military and law enforcement
Speaking Security Newsletter | Note n°241 | 25 March 2024
Mar 25, 2024
Sixty-eight percent of the FY2024 discretionary budget is for military and law enforcement-related programs.
This $1.1 trillion total includes the annual spending bills for the Pentagon (which makes up 70 percent of the recent $1.2 trillion spending bill and 51 percent of the overall $1.6 trillion FY2024 budget), Military Construction/VA, and parts of four others:
- Homeland Security: Title II — CBP, ICE, TSA, Coast Guard, Secret Service ($55 billion); Title III — State Homeland Security Grant Program, Urban Area Security Initiative, Nonprofit Security Grant Program, Public Transportation Security Assistance, Port Security Grants ($1.5 billion)
- Commerce, Justice, Science: Title II — Marshals Service, National Security Division, Interagency Law Enforcement, FBI, DEA, ATF, Federal Prison System, State and Local Law Enforcement Activities ($32.3 billion)
- Energy and Water: Atomic energy military activities ($32.8 billion)
- State, Foreign Operations: Title IV — Foreign military aid ($8.9 billion)
^Alt text for screen readers: The 2024 budget has $1.1 trillion for military and law enforcement. This multi-colored column chart shows military and law enforcement programs eating 68 percent of the $1.6 trillion fiscal year 2024 budget. Here is a breakdown, in billions of dollars. Pentagon: 824. Military Construction, Veterans Affairs: 154. Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice prisons and law enforcement: 89. Department of Energy military nuclear programs: 33. Department of State foreign military aid: 9. Other: 519. Data: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024; Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024. Full analysis and methodology: stephen semler dot substack dot com
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