Allysia Finley on W.H.’s $1.5T Defense Budget Amid Iran War: We Cannot Afford to Get into a War with China
‘We are spending more on interest payments, we’re spending more on Social Security’
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FINLEY: "Yes it would take it up to 4.5% and to put in perspective of the total budget we are spending about 13 or only about 13% of the budget right now on a military or defense but take us up to 16 or 17% sprint just a little bit more than we are spending on interest payments. Right now we are spending more on interest payments was many more in Social Security and Medicare and each of those categories and of non-defense wi parole or with threats among the globe we cannot afford to get into it work with China. So we will actually reduce we may have to spend going in the future but."
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