How Much Has the War on Terror Cost the United States So Far?

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The war on terror has cost us eight trillion dollars in both spent funds and funds that we've committed to care for vets over the next 30 years or so, until 20 58. How do you even explain how massive that is? It's something we can't even grasp. Yet, there are more, ah, more foreign lenders than ever before ni the history of the us. And how it's paid for wars, which is a little ironic considering thate.

The Department of Defense tracks how much US wars cost, but last week President Biden cited instead accounting from the Costs of War Project at Brown University. Its co-director, Stephanie Savell, explains why.

Today’s show was produced by Victoria Chamberlin with help from Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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