Warren Slams Trump for Iran War Costing ‘American Taxpayers $11,500 Per Second’
An estimated cost of $1 billion per day for the Iran war is “higher than the appropriated budget of any federal agency except the Pentagon itself.”
An estimated cost of $1 billion per day for the Iran war is “higher than the appropriated budget of any federal agency except the Pentagon itself.”
The Iran war “is not protecting Americans, but it is preventing Americans from having enough resources,” Lindsay Koshgarian says.
Congress must not permit a dollar more of public money to be spent on this catastrophic war of choice.
“This is highly unpredictable and so we won’t know the cost of it until it’s over,” said Lindsay Koshgarian, program director of the National Priorities Project at the Institute of Policy Studies, who said the conflict is “not necessary” and is taking away from other policies that could “make life more affordable for Americans.”
A Forbes op-ed cites IPS’s initial point-in-time estimate of the partial cost of key Iran war military operations.
We initially found nearly $60 million a day in costs for weapons systems, but the total costs are much higher.
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