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For all-day, all-night protection. can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn? ainsley: this is a fox news alert some democrats already eyeing budget reconciliation money for the afghanistan refugee settlement, as part of their $3.5 trillion infrastructure plan. this comes as the new report reveals that the 20-year war already cost taxpayers $978 billion from the fiscal year. here to react is air force veteran and host of making money on fox business, charles payne. good morning, charles. >> goo...

I have lots of achievement. i left from the taliban like 20 years ago. now we go back to the first -- >> bret: afghanistans president ashraf ghani left the country just to put a cost on what the u.s. has spent in the total cost of the war, $978 billion from 2001 to 2020. not including, obviously, the blood and treasure left there. lets bring in our panel senior political analyst brit hume, ben domenech, publisher of the federalist. harold ford jr. former tennessee congressman and coe of empowerm...

Again tomorrow. senator and her team proposing $978 billion in that package, thats up 50 billion and thats with a b and its a sign that republicans want to negotiate. the president cig neighboringantly come down in numbers. he wants to use this package to tackle infrastructure but also the climate crisis and some other progressive priorities. >> this is not just about getting through this season or some kind of short-term stimulus. this is about making sure that america wins the future at a time...

Case at least in the power corridors of washington d.c. whether it be the capitol here at the west wing of the white house. president biden set to meet the chief republican negotiator on infrastructure west virginia senator shelley capito. this is a third time in recent days he spoke to her at last wednesdays bookstore last friday will resume those talks on monday. republicans have come up $50 billion saying they are going to offer $978 billion for the infrastructure package. that is up 50 billi...

Conversations on the subject but they still have not reached a deal. republicans are looking at $978 billion. the president has also significantly come down in numbers. >> i still have all the confidence in the world were going to get there. the president has gone from 2.25 trillion down to $1 trillion. the republicans have come up quite a bit from where they started. this is the same type of challenges we had back last year when we had to all get forget and break a deadlock. were not there yet....

Operations but also is a dishonor to the sacrifices that have been made by the servicemen and women in afghanistan over these years. this is an inexcusable way to run things. >> reporter: the revelations are reminiscent of the pentagon papers, a top-secret defense department study of the vietnam war, which were first made public in 1971 when they were published by "the new york times." >> its very similar to what happened with the pentagon papers because, again, a strategy is being called into q...

These years. this is a, an inexcusable way to run things. >> the revelations are reminiscent of the pentagon papers. a study of the vietnam war which refers to 1971 when they were published by "the new york times." >> its similar to what happened with the pentagon papers because again, a strategy is being called into question. a rosy picture thats being painted by our political and military leadership is not the real picture on the ground. >> to date, the u.s. has not carried out a comprehensive...

1971 when they were published by the new york times. >> its similar to what happened with the pentagon papers because a strategy is being called into question. the rosy picture thats being painted is not the real picture on the ground. >> reporter: to date the u.s. has not carried out a come prehence iive accounting of how much it went in the war. the government spent or appropriated between $934 billion and 978 billion according to an inflation adjusted estimate. 90% of what the u.s. spent was ...

Years below $1 trillion. >> the cbo projects deficits to decline from $845 billion to year to as low as 430 billion in 2015 but then 978 billion a year by 2023. >> in 2014 or 15 the deficit will come down. theres a tax increase we just passed. that combines to produce a smaller deficit. >> though the president has not submitted his budget, the cbo projects the next ten years u.s. debt will increase $10 trillion from a little more than 16 trillion-dollar now to more than $26 trillion in 2023. >> ...