US Spends Billions on Overseas Wars, But Who Really Benefits?

Whether those billions of dollars will adequately serve the national interest is an open question. To that end, he said the Biden administration is now “selling” the spending package as an economic boon because most people won't believe it would improve national security interests abroad.
“If people don’t buy the foreign policy argument for spending $106 billion, the thinking goes, maybe they’ll support it if it’s framed as domestic policy,” Mr. Semler said.