GAO: $21 billion spent fighting ISIS

Published July 20, 2017 5:58pm ET



In a rare accounting for the federal government’s war on ISIS, a sweeping new report put a pricetag of $21.1 billion on the four-year effort, more than the 2017 budget for the state of Connecticut.

And while it appears that ISIS is cornered and certainly on the run, the Governmental Accountability Office found that government lacks a strategy to fight the extremism that ISIS is a part of and that most threatens the U.S. homeland.

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