United States defense budget
2 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 15, 2025 by Brian Schimpf · across every show →
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Dec 15, 2025 neutral
Schimpf: Over half of US defense budget covers personnel and facilities
“More than half goes to personnel costs, to facilities, to military construction. So you just have an outrageous percentage going to these fixed costs that you have that are not next generation technology. And then There's an outrageous cost as well then to sus…”
Dec 16, 2025 neutral
Schimpf: US defense budgets cannot shrink without sacrificing necessary military capability
“I don't see a world where, like, the defense budgets could magically shrink, and we still have the military that we need to have, but I do think these things can be done wildly more efficiently than they ever have in the past.”