In February 2018, the GOP-controlled Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed legislation that increased U.S. military spending by $165 billion over the next two years.  Remarkably, though, a Gallup poll, conducted only days before, found that only 33 percent of Americans favored increasing military spending, while 65 percent opposed it.  Even more remarkable for a nation where military spending has grown substantially over the decades, in only one of the past 49 years when Gallup polled Americans about military spending did a majority of Americans favor increasing it.