How much money goes to fighting and funding ISIS, in two charts

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Market Watch
Jessica Marmor Shaw
12/15/2015

Terrorism costs money. Fighting terrorism costs even more money.

So far, $6.2 billion has been allocated for military operations against Islamic State, according to the U.S. Department of Defense. In 2015, $5.4 billion was allocated to fight ISIS, or an estimated $11 million each day, which represents less than 1% of the department’s nearly $600 billion budget. (more)