Background of the United States Budget This coming year, in 1999, our Federal Government will spend over $1.7 trillion. They use this money to support causes that aid to the betterment of society, the health of the people, research for better and new materials, education, and one of the biggest, the military. Each year, by the first Monday if February, the President of the United States presents to Congress the proposed Federal Budget for the next fiscal …showed first 75 words of 1208 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1208 total…to 1.4 million. Yet, even as this happens, our forces are being called upon to do more all over the world. Even though our defense budget is less than it has been, it is just reflecting the fact that we are not in the Cold War anymore. Also, it displays the fact that we finally have enough weapons that we do not have to make more to be secure. Despite this even, after a (Time article)