Over half of the Pentagon’s budget annually goes toward private contractors, like Palantir.

On Tuesday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said that the “greatest threat” that the U.S. faces is not the historic affordability crisis, institutionalized corruption, or rapid erosion of basic rights, but rather the prospect that the Pentagon — and the military contractors who profit from its contracts — may not get a half trillion-dollar raise next year. During his testimony to the Senate…

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