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#Military-Spending

Events indexed under #Military-Spending — 8 entries in the record.

8 events From Apr 7, 1950 To Apr 3, 2026 Open in filter view →

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Date	Event	Lanes	Status
2026-04-03	Trump Requests Record $1.5 Trillion Defense Budget for FY2027, Largest Year-Over-Year Increase Since WWII Donald Trump · Pete Hegseth · U.S. Congress		confirmed
2026-03-19	Pentagon Requests $200 Billion War Supplemental — Hegseth Says 'It Takes Money to Kill Bad Guys' Pete Hegseth · Pentagon · Congress		confirmed
2025-07-25	Trump Administration Accepts Qatar's Luxury Jet, Uses Missile Program Funds for Retrofit Donald Trump · Troy Meink · Pete Hegseth		confirmed
2014-12-18	Congress Appropriates $120 Million for Unwanted Abrams Tanks for Third Consecutive Year Despite Army Opposition General Dynamics · Mike Turner · Ray Odierno · Rob Portman · +1		confirmed
2012-07-25	Congress Overrides Army to Fund $255 Million in Unwanted Abrams Tank Upgrades to Protect General Dynamics Ohio Plant General Dynamics · Rob Portman · Sherrod Brown · Ray Odierno · +2		confirmed
1953-10-30	Eisenhower Approves New Look Defense Policy - Cuts Military Budget by One-Third Despite Pentagon Resistance Dwight D. Eisenhower · John Foster Dulles · Robert B. Carney · Matthew B. Ridgway · +1		confirmed
1953-04-16	Eisenhower's "Chance for Peace" Speech - Every Gun Made Is a Theft From Those Who Hunger Dwight D. Eisenhower		confirmed
1950-04-07	NSC-68 Directive Creates Permanent Military-Industrial Establishment - Defense Spending to Triple Harry S. Truman · Paul Nitze · Dean Acheson · George Kennan · +1		confirmed