{"id":51689,"date":"2026-07-22T09:01:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T03:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=51689"},"modified":"2026-07-22T09:01:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T03:16:58","slug":"war-in-iran-has-cost-the-us-37-5-billion-so-far-pentagon-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/war-in-iran-has-cost-the-us-37-5-billion-so-far-pentagon-says\/","title":{"rendered":"War in Iran has cost the US $37.5 billion so far, Pentagon says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reuters :\u00a0 The cost of the United States’ war in Iran has risen to $37.5 billion \u200bso far, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday, as he faced skeptical lawmakers for the first time since heavy \u200cbombings resumed to seek urgent funding for the unpopular conflict.<\/p>\n

With just six months before midterm elections in which President Donald Trump’s Republicans may face an uphill battle to keep their House of Representatives and Senate majorities, Democrats are riding high in public opinion polls as they attempt to link the unpopular Iran war with affordability.”The president is threatening escalation and war crimes, and suggesting this could be another forever war,” Senator Patty Murray, the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, said at the hearing. Trump has repeatedly issued severe \u200bthreats against Iran, including against civilian infrastructure, which critics say would be a war crime.<\/p>\n

Trump’s Republicans hold such slim margins in the House and \u200bSenate that appropriations bills typically need Democratic support to pass.<\/p>\n

“The reason why they (people) are so upset with you and this administration is because the words you have used in \u200cthe past \u2060don’t add up,” Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand said. “It’s either over, or it’s not over. It’s within two weeks, or it’s not two weeks, it’s either missiles or it’s not missiles.”<\/p>\n

The war has strained the Pentagon’s nearly $1 trillion budget and risks funding for military personnel matters. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Caine, acknowledged that potential \u200bcost during the hearing, saying that while \u200bthey would figure out how \u2060to pay service members, the Pentagon could struggle with maintenance costs as well as investing in future capabilities.<\/p>\n

Hegseth called on lawmakers to not just fund the supplemental request but also a $1.5 trillion budget request for 2027.<\/p>\n

“Not funding this \u200bdepartment at $1.5 trillion, I believe, is the greatest threat that our nation faces,” Hegseth said.<\/p>\n

A fragile ceasefire between \u200bthe U.S. and Iran \u2060collapsed earlier this month and both sides have been carrying out daily strikes against each other.<\/p>\n

The number of U.S. troops killed in the war on Iran rose to 18 over the weekend, while roughly 430 U.S. troops have been injured. The Pentagon said on Monday that 100 service members were injured since July 7, but that \u206096% have \u200breturned to duty.<\/p>\n

In the past week, Trump has threatened to expand the targets being struck \u200bin Iran to include energy plants and bridges, send ground forces to seize Iran\u2019s Kharg Island oil hub and bomb a deep-underground nuclear-linked site known as Pickaxe Mountain.
\nOn Tuesday, Trump said \u200bthe U.S. would take out the mountain facility “pretty soon.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reuters :\u00a0 The cost of the United States’ war in Iran has risen to $37.5 billion \u200bso far, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday, as he faced skeptical lawmakers for the first time since heavy \u200cbombings resumed to seek urgent funding for the unpopular conflict. With just six months before midterm elections in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51690,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51689\/revisions\/51690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}