“The budget requested by the president for the Ministry of Defense is $ 740.5 billion,” she said.
She also presented data from which, as noted, it follows that of this amount, $ 69 billion will go to support military operations abroad.
In a previously published draft US budget, it was said that the US side plans to allocate $ 700 million to counter “Russian influence” in 2021.
At the end of 2019, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that the US military budget for 2020 is 16 times the Russian budget.