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Hegseth Tells Senate Iran War Has Cost $37.5 Billion, Asks for $67 Billion More — and Refuses to Say What Victory Looks Like
A rare public hearing devolves into a three-hour argument over claims, body counts and a war now entering its third week.
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- Start with the number that matters most. In a three-hour hearing on Capitol Hill, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told the Senate Appropriations Committee that the war in Iran has, so far, cost American taxpayers $37.5 billion . Then he asked for $67 billion more . The total bill the administration is preparing to hand Congress is approaching nine figures before the war is a month old, and the secretary who presented it refused, again and again, to say what the United States is actually buying with the money.
