charts and data
from Stephen semler
For more of Stephen Semler’s work, see stephensemler.com.
Note: Some of the spending figures below diverge from those elsewhere on the website because they reflect different forms of spending on the US military. The federal government spreads military spending across multiple government budgets. This helps hide the true amount of spending on the US military and war. It also makes tracking and documenting spending harder.
For the full chart of Senators, visit https://www.stephensemler.com/p/votes-on-military-spending-vs-arms. For House members, see https://www.stephensemler.com/p/ranking-the-top-25-house-members.
Note: Northrup Grumman is #32 on this list ($8.84 million in lobbying). In addition to the longstanding weapons maker behemoths circled, Meta (Facebook), Amazon, and Alphabet (Google) have increasingly pursued and won multi-billion-dollar Pentagon contracts in recent years. Most of the other corporations on this list receive at least some Pentagon contract funds.
charts as social media slides
from the costs of war project
For more from Brown University’s Costs of War project, see www.costsofwar.org.
Note: Some of the spending figures below diverge from those elsewhere on the website because they reflect different forms of spending on the US military. The federal government spreads military spending across multiple government budgets. This helps hide the true amount of spending on the US military and war. It also makes tracking and documenting spending harder.
