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One Trillion Dollars?! Nine Charts to Help Demystify the Pentagon’s Budget

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One trillion!

It’s an exclamation-point-inducing, mind-jarringly inconceivable number for most humans. Start counting once every second and you’ll need more than 31,700 years to get there.

It’s also the ALL-CAPS amount of money President Trump wants to spend on defense—amid the frenzied downsizing of the rest of the federal government—in fiscal year 2026.

“COMING SOON,” Defense Secretary Pete Hedgehog posted on X last month, “the first TRILLION dollar @DeptofDefense budget.”

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