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-- additional interest payments to 2020.
Grand Total: $4,668.2 - $5,444.4 trillion.
Additional costs include:
-- medical care for injured veterans over age 65;
-- expenses for veterans paid for by state and local governments;
-- promised $5.3 billion in Afghanistan reconstruction aid; and
-- other macroeconomic consequences of war, including infrastructure and jobs.
Post-9/11, in addition to Pentagon war spending, "$5,238.7 billion in constant dollars was appropriated for ostensibly non-war DOD expenses" - the "base'' DOD budget through FY 2011.
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