defense spending

How big is the U.S. Dept of Defense's budget ?

This is encouraging The Pentagon itself is advising the incoming president to cut the various white elephants. Who woulda thunk it?

Some of the war discussions made me wonder about how our taxes (in the US) are spent. I tried Googling for budget statistics and this was the only understandable thing I found. For many years now, welfare has been one of the big things that conservatives complain about, but what does it...