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Pentagon provided $2.4tn to private arms firms to ‘fund war and weapons’, report finds

July 9, 2025

William D. Hartung and Stephen N. Semler


In five years, from 2020 to 2024, private firms received $2.4 trillion in contracts from the Pentagon, approximately 54% of the department’s discretionary spending of $4.4 trillion over that period. 

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