One trillion dollars, the rest of the planet spends approx 2.4-2.7 trillion dollars, the Pentagon is not delivering much bang for the buck.

They even funded accounting errors to reward the poor performance of Pentagon program managers.

When combined with off DOD budget spending at Department of Energy north of 34 billion dollars and the associated intelligence spending, the budget for the notorious spendthrifts at the Department of War cavalcade of calamities is fast approaching a trillion debt-bucks.

Despite the $8 billion in added funds, because the Pentagon has submitted more than $50 billion in additional funding requests since its budget request was sent to Capitol Hill in June, the department will still be short some of the money it wants for FY26.

Those additional requests include $26.5 billion to mitigate funding discrepancies between its FY26 request and the reconciliation bill — essentially a laundry list of accounting errors that resulted in shortfalls to key programs like the Virginia-class submarine. While some of those shortfalls were addressed by the $8 billion increase, not all are covered.

The late requests also included an additional $2.3 billion in “emergent requirements” and a whopping $28.8 billion sum for multiyear munitions procurement contracts, which largely went unfunded.

You could double the DoW budget tomorrow and they would still ask for more, fail audits at the retail & wholesale level and still pile on creating the most awesome 20th century peer fighting force not fit for purpose for peer combat in the 21st century.

Read the rest:

https://breakingdefense.com/2026/02/house-passes-839b-defense-spending-bill-teeing-up-end-to-government-shutdown/