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THE COST RECEIPT
Trump weighs annihilating Iran days after U.N. finds strikes already likely war crimes
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“Forty-seven senators had to write a letter just to get a price tag out of the Pentagon, and that same week the guy in the Oval is talking about "annihilating" a whole country like it's a renovation estimate. Thirty-eight billion and climbing, and not one straight answer in that closed-door room — the number's not missing, it's the argument against doing it again, which is exactly why nobody in that building wants to hand it over. That's the racket: they can always find the money to keep it going, they just can't find the receipt to show you where it went.”
“Look, nobody's "hiding" a receipt, okay, there's operational security considerations on an active — the CBO already published thirty-eight billion, so it's not like anybody's — the point is the committee got a full briefing, they just didn't care for the answers they — did I say they got answers? That's not — what I mean is, you don't hand out a line-item budget of an ongoing war, that's just not how any of this works.”
All of the Democrats in the Senate — excluding Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman — signed an open letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, pressing him to give Congress a cost breakdown of the war in Iran. The letter, although largely symbolic, reflects the frustration of many Democrats in Congress over what they perceive as a...
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