Congress Won’t Pay for Trump’s Iran War, and the Pentagon Is Burning Cash

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Trump’s Iran war is burning nearly $1 billion a day, draining precision munitions and forcing the Pentagon to tap stockpiles meant for China contingencies. Yet Congress refuses to fund a conflict it never authorized. With both parties politically boxed in, the war’s costs are rising faster than Washington’s willingness to pay them.