America has spent $6.4 trillion on wars in the Middle East and Asia since 2001, a new study says.
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That total is $2 trillion more than all federal government spending during the recently completed fiscal year. A rear door gunner on a CH-47, keeps watch on the mountains in Uruzgan province, Afghanistan, May 12, 2013.American taxpayers have spent $6.4 trillion on post-9/11 wars and military action in the Middle East and Asia,That total is $2 trillion more than the entire federal government spending during the recently completed 2019 fiscal year. The U.S. government spent $4.4 trillion during the fiscal year that ended Sept.
The $6.4 trillion figure reflects the cost across the U.S. federal government since the price of America's wars is not borne by the Defense Department alone, according to Neta Crawford, who authored the study.
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