 Complete the following phrase:  Shortly after taking office in 1989, President George H. W. Bush signed a presidential finding renewing the CIAs legal authority to conduct covert operations in Afghanistan, but the country ranked low on the fledgling administrations priorities; Bearden recalled a conversation about Afghanistan in which President Bush asked: Is that thing still going on? Congress was losing interest in Afghanistan as well, slashing the CIAs Afghan budget to 280 million for fiscal 1990 with additional cuts in fiscal 1991. In late 1990, the U.S. suspended most aid to Pakistan as a consequence of Pakistans continued progress towards developing a nuclear weapon, as legally required by an amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act. Finally, after 