Most of the money going on 'defense' can not be used for defending the country owing to provisions in: The Posse Comitatus Act (PCA) prohibits the deliberate use of the armed forces to execute law on US soil. After the problems with defending the country on 9/11 the Department of Homeland Security was established within the Department of 'Defense', and one relevant part of Homeland Security is the National Guard: The National Guard, along with state police, does not have jurisdiction to enforce federal immigration policy1. The Posse Comitatus Act prohibits the deliberate use of the armed forces to enforce law on US soil2. While U.S. troops are authorized to use force in self-defense, their deployment to the border is limited to performing support functions. People tell me I'm selfish to be concerned about defending our country and that we should spend money defending Israel or Taiwan or somewhere but given the way the money we spent 'helping' Ukraine has just fed a 2 year war and killed massive numbers of people I can't even count that as some kind of defense. I don't mind spending some money but not that much and some of it has to help in some way with actual defense.
