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Officials Call BS on Pentagon Pete’s Blatant Lies
May 1, 2026
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Ken Cedeno / REUTERSThe Pentagon shaved roughly half off the cost of the Iran war when telling Congress it was about 25 billion, while internal estimates put it closer to 50 billion.On Wednesday, a senior Defense Department official said before the House Armed Services Committee that President Donald Trump’s war in the Middle East, now in its third month, had so far cost 25 billion.
Most of the cost so far has gone toward munitions, operations and maintenance, and equipment replacement, said acting Under Secretary of Defense Jules Hurst.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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