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America’s Final Afghanistan Price Tag: $2.261 Trillion

Ben Zeisloft
America’s Final Afghanistan Price Tag: $2.261 Trillion
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America spent $2.261 trillion on the War in Afghanistan.

According to the Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute, the United States federal government spent $933 billion on war operations, $443 billion on war-related increases to the Defense Department’s budget, $59 billion on increases to the State Department’s budget, and $296 billion on caring for Afghanistan veterans — not to mention $530 billion for paying interest on war borrowing.

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