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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 831045, member: 3011&quot;]&quot;For the 2010 fiscal year, the president&#039;s base budget of the Department of Defense rose to $533.8 billion. Adding spending on &quot;overseas contingency operations&quot; brings the sum to $663.8 billion.[1][2] When the budget was signed into law on October 28, 2009 the final size of the Department of Defense&#039;s budget was $680 billion, $16 billion more than Obama had requested. [3][4] Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff expected an additional supplemental spending bill, possibly in the range of $40–50 billion, by the Spring of 2010 in order to support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. [5]Defense-related expenditures outside of the Department of Defense constitute between $216 billion and $361 billion in additional spending, bringing the total for defense spending to between $880 billion and $1.03 trillion in fiscal year 2010.[6]&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Only?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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