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$275 billion
That's the amount in cost overruns - expenses beyond original estimates - the Government Accountability
Office found when it looked into 95 major Department of Defense contracts. That's almost half as much as the $630 billion President Barack Obama has budgeted to spend on health care reform - one of the nation's most expensive problems - over the next decade.
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