"I'm tired of spending $50 billion a year in Afghanistan building roads and bridges over there where I would rather build roads and bridges here," Paul told Breitbart News Deputy Political Editor Amanda House during a wide-ranging interview that included President Donald Trump's push to advance an America First foreign policy,

A study from Brown University released on Wednesday found that American taxpayers spent $5.9 trillion in military action in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan since 2001, which is $2 trillion more than all federal government spending during the 2017-18 fiscal year.