"It’s never cheap to fight a war,” Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) told HuffPost.
Officials briefed the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense. One senator said he believes cost is higher since the figure didn't include aspects like munitions replacement.
The first week of the war in Iran cost the United States at least $11.3 billion, Pentagon officials told lawmakers during a closed-door briefing this week. The cost update comes as President Donald Trump on Wednesday insisted the conflict in Iran has effectively been won, citing the elimination of the country’s defense infrastructure. Defense officials…
Experts raged on Wednesday night after the cost of President Donald Trump's first week at war with Iran was revealed. The Associated Press reported that the first week of the war cost $11.3 billion, which includes all of the munitions used in the bombing operations that killed former Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and destroyed a girls' school, killing 175…
Defense officials said that the military spent $5.6 billion of munitions in the first two days of the conflict, according to news outlets
virtually unlimited supply of Medium and Upper Medium Grade Munitions'
