The cost of the United States\u2019 war in Iran has risen to US$37.5 billion so far, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday, as he faced sceptical lawmakers for the first time since heavy bombings resumed to seek urgent funding for the unpopular conflict.<\/p>\n
With just six months before midterm elections in which US President Donald Trump\u2019s Republicans may face an uphill battle to keep their House of \u200cRepresentatives and Senate majorities, Democrats are riding high in public opinion polls as they attempt to link the unpopular Iran war with affordability.<\/p>\n
Hegseth told lawmakers at a hearing in Washington that the US$37.5 billion included certain aspects of the war as well as anticipated costs through September 30.<\/p>\n
It was unclear how the Pentagon arrived at the figure. A source told Reuters in March that Trump\u2019s administration estimated the first six days of the war had cost at least US$11.3 billion.<\/p>\n
Trump asked Congress last month for nearly US$90 billion in additional funding, most of it related to the Iran conflict, setting the stage for another fight \u2060with lawmakers frustrated with the war and facing the November midterms.<\/p>\n
Why the vital Red Sea shipping lane may be the new frontline in the US-Iran war<\/p>\n
Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers have complained since the US and Israel began bombing Iran on February 28 \u200cthat Trump and his team have not kept them informed about the conflict or his plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cost of the United States\u2019 war in Iran has risen to US$37.5 billion so far, US Defence…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[38,7074,34,654,2601,772,56566,351,62580,60577,51,36,1705],"class_list":["post-217333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-donald-trump","tag-general-dan-caine","tag-iran","tag-jordan","tag-kharg-island","tag-pete-hegseth","tag-pickaxe-mountain","tag-reuters","tag-senate-appropriations-committee","tag-september","tag-united-states","tag-war","tag-washington"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116960774231330511","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}