80 billion dollars

What is it about this number? In the weeks after Sept. 11 that's the amount that kept being allocated -

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"It's an incredible amount of money being spent down here," said Errol Savoie, a spokesman for the Louisiana governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. "I think it's going to end up being more than $80 billion by the end of it."