According to White House officials, President Obama is planning to announce his intentions to keep up to 5,500 American soldiers in Afghanistan beyond 2016. This means that when President Obama leaves office in January 2017, his campaign promise to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan will remain unfulfilled.

During his reelection campaign in 2014, Obama vowed to “end the war in Afghanistan in 2014.” In a symbolic ceremony, Obama declared the war over in December of that very year.

“For more than 13 years, ever since nearly 3,000 innocent lives were taken from us on 9/11, our nation has been at war in Afghanistan,” Obama said at the ceremony. “Now, thanks to the extraordinary sacrifices of our men and women in uniform, our combat mission in Afghanistan is ending, and the longest war in American history is coming to a responsible conclusion.”

With the war formally over, the president planned to pull out all military forces save for a small American embassy shifted to the end of 2016. However, debate that Afghanistan still required American intervention and resources caused Obama to change his mind.

Under the new plan, 9,300 troops would remain in Afghanistan until the end of Obama’s presidency, at which point that number will decrease to 5,500. While this is an improvement from the 38,000 troops stationed in Afghanistan at the start of 2014, it’s not the ‘responsible conclusion’ the Obama administration originally hoped for. The estimated annual cost to keep U.S. troops in Afghanistan is $14.6 billion.

CNN analyst and military veteran Lt. Col. Rick Francona said that this plan “is this administration pushing this off to the next administration because the next time they have to make this decision, it will be a different president in the White House.”