Hegseth Asks for More Money as Iran War Costs Skyrocket
War Secretary Pete Hegseth was on Capitol Hill Tuesday to defend the Pentagon’s $1.5 trillion budget request.

The Pentagon has presented yet another nonsensical price tag for Donald Trump’s reckless war in Iran: $29 billion. During a hearing at the House Appropriations Subcommittee Tuesday, Undersecretary of Defense Jules Hurst faced a brutal fact-check on the Pentagon’s supposedly $29 billion war.Late last month, the Pentagon testified that the estimated cost of…
War Secretary Pete Hegseth was on Capitol Hill Tuesday to defend the Pentagon’s $1.5 trillion budget request.
The estimate from the Defense Department’s top budget official was $4 billion higher than two weeks ago. Secretary Pete Hegseth declined to say when the administration would request extra money for the Iran conflict.
“I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation,” Trump said, as the Pentagon estimates the war has cost the U.S. at least $29 billion so far.
The key measure of US inflation rises its highest level since May 2023 as consumers feel the impact of the Iran war.
The estimated cost of the war in Iran has now hit nearly $30 billion, the Pentagon said Tuesday. Department of War Comptroller and Chief Financial Officer Jules…