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Bookmark or Share- Reduce the Department of Defense's Annual BudgetSecond, real defense funding declined by 17 percent between 2012 and 2015 after the Budget Control Act of 2011 was enacted. That law generally capped defense and nondefense discretionary funding. (Those caps, which are no longer in effect, were later raised several times: Between 2016 and 2021, real defense spending rose by 9 percent.)
- Graphics - Congressional Budget OfficeDiscretionary Spending in Fiscal Year 2021: An Infographic September 20, 2022 Discretionary outlays by the federal government totaled $1.6 trillion in 2021, of which $742 billion was for national defense and $895 billion was for nondefense activities.
- Long-Term Implications of the 2025 Future Years Defense ProgramAt a Glance The Future Years Defense Program (FYDP) is a five-year plan that the Department of Defense (DoD) prepares as part of its annual budget request. In this report, the Congressional Budget Office analyzes the costs of DoD’s plans for 2025 to 2029 as presented in the 2025 FYDP and projects how those plans would affect defense costs through 2039.
- Defense Budget - Congressional Budget OfficeSpending for the Department of Defense (DoD) accounts for nearly all of the nation’s defense budget. The funding provided to DoD covers its base budget—which pays for the department’s normal activities—and its contingency operations overseas.
- An Analysis of the Discretionary Spending Proposals in the President’s ...Defense Spending. Under the President’s budget, base discretionary outlays for defense programs and activities would be about the same as the amount in CBO’s baseline through 2030 and $176 billion (or 4 percent) lower over the following four years.
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