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This shows the increase in defense spending since 2000 (pre 9/11). The annual base defense budget increased from $295B in FY2000 to $549B by FY2011, an 86% increase, excluding supplemental funding directly attributed to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and certain other expenses related to the "War on Terror." On February 1, 2010, President Barack Obama sent to Congress a proposed defense budget of $708 billion for fiscal 2011. The budget request for the Department of Defense (DoD) includes $549 billion in discretionary budget authority to fund base defense programs and $159 billion to support overseas contingency operations (OCO), primarily in Afghanistan and Iraq. The fiscal 2011 base budget request represents an increase of $18 billion over the $531 billion enacted for fiscal 2010. This is an increase of 3.4 percent, or 1.8 percent real growth after adjusting for inflation. ^[1] Accompanying the 2011 budget proposal sent to Congress on February 1, 2010 was a fiscal 2010 supplemental request of $33 billion to support the added costs of the President's new strategy in Afghanistan and strengthen U.S. force levels with approximately 30,000 additional troops. On July 29, 2010 President Obama signed a fiscal 2010 supplemental Bill that included $37.1 billion in additional military expenditures for Afghanistan. The cumulative increase in the base defense budget is estimated to reach $1.46 trillion by the end of fiscal year 2011, while the total spending for the wars is approximately $1.22 trillion, a combined total of $2.68 trillion. These amounts exclude Homeland Security and Veteran's Affairs expenses, which have also increased. The U.S. last balanced its budget in FY2001.

The data from 2001 - 2011 are from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The 2000 data is from the CBO. Here is a citation for the 2011 OMB budget, which covers 2009 actual and 2010-2011 estimates. By replacing the "11" in the URL (in your browser window) with other years going back to 2005, you can capture the source information. There is a table in each document that makes the information easy to identify.

• OMB-2011 Budget

The two documents below have the data for a similar analysis from CBO through 2009; one has the total amounts and the other has additional commentary on amounts spent in the wars, broken out by year.

• CBO-Historical Tables
• CBO-Testimony on Costs of Iraq & Afghanistan Wars

Here is a similar chart from the DOD for the 2010 budget:

• DOD-Defense Spending Trend Chart-May 2009

1. ↑ http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=13281

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