I'm So Old I Remember When $86 Billion Was A Lot Of Money

We could build the California HSR for this, basically. And we spend it every year. It's 4 times the GDP of Afghanistan.

The Reuters news agency quotes an unidentified White House aide as saying the president has decreased his request for funding the war in Afghanistan by 10 percent for the 2014 fiscal year budget. The report says the president reduced his original request from $88.5 billion to $79.4 billion.