Trump wants $54 billion more for defense — Here's what that money could buy

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President Donald Trump is requesting a $54 billion increase in defense spending — a nearly 10 percent increase over the $582.7 billion budget former President Barack Obama proposed for the Department of Defense for fiscal year 2017.

The federal budget in 2016 was $4 trillion, so $54 billion would be just about 1.35 percent of the budget that year.

Nonetheless, the number is really too big to fully comprehend, so to make it more manageable, here's what "We, the People," might get for $54 billion in defense spending. For the sake of comparison, we're going to throw in what we could do with that amount of money in non-defense spending, as well.

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