During the November 14th Democratic debate, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT)  said “We're spending over $600 billion a year on the military and yet, significantly  less than 10 percent of that money is used to be fighting international terrorism.”  In fact, by most measures we spend above 10 percent to fight international ...
Nov 15, 2015 ... Out of the total U.S. military budget, "significantly less than 10 percent of that  money is used to fight international terrorism." — Bernie Sanders on ... 10 percent " figure. The Sanders campaign told us that Sanders was talking about the  budget to fight the Islamic State group, otherwise known as ISIS or ISIL.
The United States can fight an effective war on terrorism while still substantially  cutting defense spending. For fiscal year (FY) 2005, military spending .... Military  spending is even more lopsided: $11.3 billion compared to $404.9 billion, or less  than 3 percent of U.S. defense spending. Even if North Korea and Iran eventually  ...
Jan 18, 2016 ... "Very little of that budget — less than 10 percent — actually goes into fighting ISIS  and international terrorism." That seems like very little from a budget that tops  $600 billion for fiscal year 2016, so we decided to look into it. What we found is  that while Sanders was talking primarily about money earmarked ...
Oct 9, 2017 ... Definition: The War on Terror is a military campaign launched by the Bush  administration in response to the al-Qaida 9/11 terrorist attacks. The War on  Terror includes the Afghanistan War and the War in Iraq. It added $2 trillion to the  debt as of the FY 2018 budget. President Bush announced the War on ...
Out of the total U.S. military budget, "significantly less than 10 percent of that money is used to fight international terrorism."