[okie01]

He's talking about $681 billion in savings over ten years!. That's 1% 10.4% of the current defense budget ($651 billion).

That would be my mistake.

[CharlesWayneCT]

The mistake was “$681 billion”, not “10%”. He was proposing $68 billion over 10 years, not $68 billion a YEAR for 10 years.