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defineandredefine's avatar

What's more interesting is that the EPA's budget in fiscal 2024 was ~$9.2 billion, or a bit over one-tenth of the annual military budget.

https://www.epa.gov/planandbudget/budget

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Dean C.'s avatar

Ahh, got it. I thought it was a tad more than $12B - maybe I was looking at FY23? Thanks for the correction.

I know it's been hovering at about $10B since about FY94 - thanks Newt! - so the $12B was a bit of surprise. Anyway...

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defineandredefine's avatar

Incidentally, I totally misread your original statement - I read it as the entire defense budget is 2/3 of the EPA annual budget, not that the the 1% increase is 2/3 of the EPA annual.

I'm a dummy.

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