The Senate is in charge of passing laws as to how revenue is spent.
congress
The budget of United States Department of Defense is 530,100,000,000 dollars.
It is in the budget.
Department of Defense $500 million
The Department of Defense.
Department of Defense $500 million
Yes, Congress establishes a yearly budget for the entire Defense Department, each branch has its own annual budget.
President Barack Obama sent Congress a proposed defense budget of $613.9 billion for fiscal 2013, Feb. 13. The request for the Department of Defense (DoD) includes $525.4 billion in discretionary budget authority to fund base defense programs and $88.5 billion to support Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO), primarily in Afghanistan. Of the discretionary budget, $155.9 billion represents the Department of the Navy's budget request. This is a decrease of $1.4 billion from last year's baseline appropriation.
The largest percentage of the federal government dollar goes to the Department of Defense. The Department of Defense gets billions of dollars for its budget every year.
National defense authorization act
Congress sets the resource ceiling and provides the budget authority for DoD.
How to manage a budget in the department