1. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The United States has been involved militarily, and with nation building and reconstruction, in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan since 2001. (2) The United States military engagement in Afghanistan began in 2001 under a congressional authorization for the use of military force against those nations, organizations, or persons [the President] determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001. . (3) On October 2, 2011, United States Navy Seals killed Osama Bin Laden, the head of Al-Qaeda, the terrorist organization responsible for the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. (4) Since 2001, the United States military and its coalition partners have killed or captured tens of thousands of Al Qaeda, Taliban, and other insurgents in Afghanistan. (5) In 2014, the United States announced the end of 13 years of combat operations in Afghanistan. (6) The war in Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. (7) According to the Department of Defense, since 2001, 2,216 United States service members have been killed in Afghanistan, and over 20,049 service members have been wounded. (8) Since 2001, 150 coalition personnel, including United States service members, have been killed by the Afghan security forces personnel that American taxpayers are paying to train. Another 189 service members have been wounded. (9) Over the past 15 years, nearly $800 billion of United States taxpayers’ money has been spent on Afghanistan. (10) The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), John Sopko, has documented billions of dollars of waste, fraud, and abuse of American taxpayers hard-earned money in Afghanistan, which continues to this day. For example: (A) According to a 2016 USA Today article entitled Report cites wasted Pentagon money in Afghanistan , among the more egregious examples of boondoggles Sopko cited included importing rare blond Italian goats to boost the cashmere industry . The $6