Money for Military

 

The United States sold more than $175 billion in military equipment to foreign governments in the fiscal year that ended September 30, a 2.8% increase compared to 2019, when weapons exports totaled just over $170 billion.

The U.S. has by far the biggest mil­i­tary bud­get on the plan­et, spend­ing more than the next 10 coun­tries com­bined.

While millions of the country's working-class households—battered by the Covid-19 pandemic and corresponding economic crisis—await a new relief package that ameliorates widespread hardship, Con­gress had no prob­lem pass­ing leg­is­la­tion to con­tin­ue U.S. mil­i­tary spending.

The journalist Sarah Lazare stated last week that "the annual approval of the gargantuan U.S. military budget," which she called "one of the most reliable rituals in Congress... is so ordinary and overwhelmingly bipartisan, it's barely considered newsworthy." Lazare continued, "There is no indi­ca­tion that U.S. law­mak­ers plan to reverse this trend any­time soon: For six con­sec­u­tive years the military bud­get has either increased or stayed rough­ly the same, tak­ing infla­tion into account. As the Nation­al Pri­or­i­ties Project point­ed out in June, the mil­i­tary bud­get in 2019 account­ed for 53% of the fed­er­al dis­cre­tionary bud­get."

As for Boris Johnson's billions to the military, the USA  we can always find the mon­ey for war.

'Money for war': US arms sales soar amid COVID pandemic as bipartisan militarism thrives - Alternet.org