Factbox: A look at costs of Afghan war to U.S. taxpayers
Tucked into the recent spending bill that kept the government from shutting down was some $110 billion for the war in Afghanistan. That's more than in any other year since the conflict began, although the Obama administration hopes to start winding it down this year. President Barack Obama plans to begin drawing down his force of 97,000 U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan in July, although the size and nature of that drawdown remains unclear. Here are a few facts about the costs of the Afghan war to U.S. taxpayers: