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On 20.3.2026 12.35, *skriptis wrote:
https://infostormer.com/pete-hegseth-confirms-they-are-seeking-200-billion-for-iran-war/
Pete Hegseth Confirms They Are Seeking $200 Billion for Iran War
The United States was already on an unsustainable fiscal trajectory,
adding to the national debt at breakneck speed, before it launched a
joint attack on Iran with Israel.
Even before the first munitions struck Tehran, the federal debt had
surged past the $38 trillion mark, even jumping $1 trillion in just over
two months between August and October 2025, the fastest rate of
accumulation outside the pandemic in history.
Now, President Donald Trump has committed the U.S. to a war with Iran
that is draining nearly $1 billion a day from the governmentrCOs coffers.
With the U.S. borrowing at an accelerating rate, economists and defense analysts are aggressively gaming out the macroeconomic scenarios of a
conflict with no clear endgame.
The daily price tag is driven by massive air and naval deployments, with
air operations costing $30 million daily and naval operations add
another $15 million. Keeping an aircraft carrier strike group active
costs $6 million per day, and deploying stealth bombers, non-stealth
fighters, and tanker aircraft costs millions more. Kent Smetters,
faculty director of the Penn Wharton Budget Model, projected that a
two-month war could cost taxpayers up to $95 billion, depending on troop deployments and munition replenishment.
These massive military expenditures are piling onto a highly fragile
fiscal foundation. Michael A. Peterson of the Peter G. Peterson
Foundation warned last October that the nationrCOs debt was growing at
twice the rate seen since 2000. The U.S. government is now spending
nearly $1 trillion annually just on interest payments, costing taxpayers
more than spending on defense and Medicaid.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-economy-already-exploding-national-194520670.html
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