Trump’s War on Iran will cost trillions

[Stalin]

the great economic genius Horace Q Frump hath created yet another great economic miracle

"...The Trump administration is drastically undercounting the price tag of the U.S. war with Iran, peddling fragmentary estimates that offer Americans a skewed understanding of the costs.

The Pentagon on Thursday said the U.S. spent about $11.3 billion in just one week of its war on Iran; Trump economic adviser Kevin Hassett similarly put the figure at $12 billion on Sunday.

But these sums are dwarfed by estimates offered by experts in the costs of war, lawmakers experienced with the Pentagon budget, and two government officials briefed on Operation Epic Fury who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

At the very least, they say the war is burning through between $1 billion and $2 billion per day — or roughly $11,500 to $23,000 per second. The cost, the officials told The Intercept, could rise to a quarter trillion dollars or more over the coming months.

Even that is a drop in the bucket compared to the long-term expenses, which could cost the U.S. trillions of dollars in the decades to come. One of the officials lamented that Americans would be paying off the war for generations.

“If this war takes months rather than weeks, the costs will become astronomical,” said Gabe Murphy, a policy analyst at Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan budget watchdog advocating for an end to wasteful spending,

Jules Hurst III, the War Department’s acting comptroller and chief financial officer, called the Pentagon’s initial $11.3 billion estimate a “ballpark number,” speaking at the Reagan Institute’s National Security Innovation Base Summit. Hurst said a more comprehensive figure would be provided with a supplemental budget request, which he said the Pentagon plans to soon submit to the White House and Congress.

Democratic lawmakers believe the true number is far higher because the Pentagon estimate did not include many expenses, including the massive buildup of military assets, weapons, and personnel in the Middle East ahead of the conflict. Lawmakers have said they expect the Iran War supplemental request to reach at least $50 billion — on top of a $1.5 trillion War Department budget request for 2027.

Trump’s War on Iran Could Cost Trillions

“My kids’ kids, and probably their kids, are going to be paying for this,” said one official briefed on the U.S war on Iran.

theintercept.com

comrade stalin
moscow

 

[mark francis]

the great economic genius Horace Q Frump hath created yet another great economic miracle

"...The Trump administration is drastically undercounting the price tag of the U.S. war with Iran, peddling fragmentary estimates that offer Americans a skewed understanding of the costs.

The Pentagon on Thursday said the U.S. spent about $11.3 billion in just one week of its war on Iran; Trump economic adviser Kevin Hassett similarly put the figure at $12 billion on Sunday.

But these sums are dwarfed by estimates offered by experts in the costs of war, lawmakers experienced with the Pentagon budget, and two government officials briefed on Operation Epic Fury who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

At the very least, they say the war is burning through between $1 billion and $2 billion per day — or roughly $11,500 to $23,000 per second. The cost, the officials told The Intercept, could rise to a quarter trillion dollars or more over the coming months.

Even that is a drop in the bucket compared to the long-term expenses, which could cost the U.S. trillions of dollars in the decades to come. One of the officials lamented that Americans would be paying off the war for generations.

“If this war takes months rather than weeks, the costs will become astronomical,” said Gabe Murphy, a policy analyst at Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan budget watchdog advocating for an end to wasteful spending,

Jules Hurst III, the War Department’s acting comptroller and chief financial officer, called the Pentagon’s initial $11.3 billion estimate a “ballpark number,” speaking at the Reagan Institute’s National Security Innovation Base Summit. Hurst said a more comprehensive figure would be provided with a supplemental budget request, which he said the Pentagon plans to soon submit to the White House and Congress.

Democratic lawmakers believe the true number is far higher because the Pentagon estimate did not include many expenses, including the massive buildup of military assets, weapons, and personnel in the Middle East ahead of the conflict. Lawmakers have said they expect the Iran War supplemental request to reach at least $50 billion — on top of a $1.5 trillion War Department budget request for 2027.

Trump’s War on Iran Could Cost Trillions

“My kids’ kids, and probably their kids, are going to be paying for this,” said one official briefed on the U.S war on Iran.

theintercept.com

comrade stalin
moscow

Nobody should expect the cost of fighting for freedom to be cheap.

 

[Gabriel_Bell]

This is not a war about freedom. Iran was no threat to Americans. The Vietnam War, the Afghanistan War, both Iraq wars were not about freedom.
On the contrary, each of them made America less free and less prosperous. And this illegal, unconstitutional war will make no one more free.

 

[mark francis]

This is not a war about freedom. Iran was no threat to Americans. The Vietnam War, the Afghanistan War, both Iraq wars were not about freedom.
On the contrary, each of them made America less free and less prosperous. And this illegal, unconstitutional war will make no one more free.

What have you never been told about Iran's attacks on the US dating back to the days of President Carter?

 

[Marchimedes]

The Pentagon on Thursday said the U.S. spent about $11.3 billion in just one week of its war on Iran; Trump economic adviser Kevin Hassett similarly put the figure at $12 billion on Sunday.

Okay.

At the very least, they say the war is burning through between $1 billion and $2 billion per day —

So, $7 - $14billion a week. Kinda exactly what The Pentagon said.

Jules Hurst III, the War Department’s acting comptroller and chief financial officer, called the Pentagon’s initial $11.3 billion estimate a “ballpark number,”

That doesn't contradict what The Pentagon said. Where are coming up with the trillions number?

Maybe you should hire an Asian kid help you with your math as seems the most you can count to is 20 1/2 and you have to be naked to do that.

 

[Stalin]

sadly, for you, a control experiment exists..

no mention, of course of the massive amount of money needed to rebuild the many thousands of buildings and oil energy
facilities destroyed by the evil empire's illegal war, which is not even over yet...

it is all about what it costs the yanks is it not ?

plus add in all the war profit for the oil companies and parasitic finance casino

maybe you should hire anyone to teach you how to do scholarship

"..A major report of direct costs was prepared by the Watson Center at Brown University, totalling over $1.1 trillion. As of August 2017, the United States Department of Defense's direct spending on Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria since September 11, 2001 totaled at least $1.474 trillion, and highlights the complementary costs at home, such as interest paid on the funds borrowed to finance the wars.

Those figures are dramatically higher than typical estimates published just prior to the start of the Iraq War, most of which were based on a shorter term of involvement. For example, in a March 16, 2003 Meet the Press interview of Vice President Dick Cheney, held less than a week before the Iraq War began, host Tim Russert reported that "every analysis said this war itself would cost about $80 billion, recovery of Baghdad, perhaps of Iraq, about $10 billion per year. We should expect as American citizens that this would cost at least $100 billion for a two-year involvement.

Appropriations​

See also: Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund

• FY2003 Supplemental: Operation Iraqi Freedom: Passed April 2003; Total $78.5 billion, $54.4 billion Iraq War
• FY2004 Supplemental: Iraq and Afghanistan Ongoing invasion reconstruction: Passed November 2003; Total $87.5 billion, $70.5 billion Iraq War
• FY2004 DoD Budget Amendment: $25 billion Emergency Reserve Fund (Iraq Freedom Fund): Passed July 2004, Total $25 billion, $21.5 billion (estimated) Iraq War
• FY2005 Emergency Supplemental: Operations in the War on Terror; Activities in Afghanistan; Tsunami Relief: Passed April 2005, Total $82 billion, $58 billion (estimated) Iraq War
• FY2006 Department of Defense appropriations: Total $50 billion, $40 billion (estimated) Iraq War.
• FY2006 Emergency Supplemental: Operations Global War on Terror; Activities in Iraq & Afghanistan: Passed February 2006, Total $72.4 billion, $60 billion (estimated) Iraq War
• FY2007 Department of Defense appropriations: $70 billion (estimated) for Iraq War-related costs<
• FY2007 Emergency Supplemental (proposed) $100 billion
• FY2008 Bush administration proposed around $190 billion for the Iraq War and Afghanistan
• FY2009 Obama administration proposed around $130 billion in additional funding for the Iraq War and Afghanistan.
• FY2010 Obama administration proposes around $159.3 billion for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Indirect and delayed costs​

According to a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report published in October 2007, the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could cost taxpayers a total of $2.4 trillion by 2017 including interest. The CBO estimated that of the $2.4 trillion long-term price tag for the war, about $1.9 trillion of that would be spent on Iraq, or $6,300 per US citizen.

A Congressional Research Service (CRS) report (conducted after the 2010 end of combat operations and 2011 withdrawal) was released in December 2014. It placed the cost of the war operations in Iraq as of January 1, 2014, at $815 billion out of the total $1.6 trillion approved by Congress since September 2001.

Joseph Stiglitz, former chief economist of the World Bank and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, and Linda Bilmes, a Harvard University professor and former official at the U.S. Department of Commerce, forecast that the total cost of the Iraq War to the United States will be three trillion dollars in a moderate scenario, described in their book about the budgetary and economic costs of the war The Three Trillion Dollar War and possibly more in a study published in March 2008.\ Stiglitz has stated: "The figure we arrive at is more than $3 trillion. Our calculations are based on conservative assumptions...Needless to say, this number represents the cost only to the United States. It does not reflect the enormous cost to the rest of the world, or to Iraq."

A 2013 updated study pointed out that US medical and disability claims for veterans after a decade of war had risen to $134.7 billion from $33 billion two years earlier.

The extended combat and equipment loss have placed a severe financial strain on the US Army, causing the elimination of non-essential expenses such as travel and civilian hiring.

In 2020, Neta Crawford, chair of the political science department at Boston University, in her Costs of War Project, estimated the long term cost of the Iraq War for the United States at $1.922 trillion. This figure includes not only funding appropriated to the Pentagon explicitly for the war, but spending on Iraq by the State Department, the healthcare of Iraq War veterans, and the interest expense on debt incurred to fund 17 years of U.S. military involvement in the country.

Financial cost of the Iraq War - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

yes pal

TRILLIONS

comrade stalin
moscow

 

[Stalin]

did you get that ?

$6,300 per US citizen.

ibid

comrade stalin
moscow

 

[Stalin]

The Three Trillion Dollar War - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

comrade stalin
moscow

 

[Marchimedes]

maybe you should hire anyone to teach you how to do scholarship

Well, you tried and that's what really matters.

 

[Boris Norris]

Nobody should expect the cost of fighting for freedom to be cheap.

It didn't work in Vietnam and USA lost. It won't work in Iran and USA is now the loser.
Islam is still there and will never be cleaned out.
That's an expensive waste of money for no gain.

 

[mark francis]

sadly, for you, a control experiment exists..

no mention, of course of the massive amount of money needed to rebuild the many thousands of buildings and oil energy
facilities destroyed by the evil empire's illegal war, which is not even over yet...

it is all about what it costs the yanks is it not ?

plus add in all the war profit for the oil companies and parasitic finance casino

maybe you should hire anyone to teach you how to do scholarship

"..A major report of direct costs was prepared by the Watson Center at Brown University, totalling over $1.1 trillion. As of August 2017, the United States Department of Defense's direct spending on Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria since September 11, 2001 totaled at least $1.474 trillion, and highlights the complementary costs at home, such as interest paid on the funds borrowed to finance the wars.

Those figures are dramatically higher than typical estimates published just prior to the start of the Iraq War, most of which were based on a shorter term of involvement. For example, in a March 16, 2003 Meet the Press interview of Vice President Dick Cheney, held less than a week before the Iraq War began, host Tim Russert reported that "every analysis said this war itself would cost about $80 billion, recovery of Baghdad, perhaps of Iraq, about $10 billion per year. We should expect as American citizens that this would cost at least $100 billion for a two-year involvement.

Appropriations​

See also: Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund

• FY2003 Supplemental: Operation Iraqi Freedom: Passed April 2003; Total $78.5 billion, $54.4 billion Iraq War
• FY2004 Supplemental: Iraq and Afghanistan Ongoing invasion reconstruction: Passed November 2003; Total $87.5 billion, $70.5 billion Iraq War
• FY2004 DoD Budget Amendment: $25 billion Emergency Reserve Fund (Iraq Freedom Fund): Passed July 2004, Total $25 billion, $21.5 billion (estimated) Iraq War
• FY2005 Emergency Supplemental: Operations in the War on Terror; Activities in Afghanistan; Tsunami Relief: Passed April 2005, Total $82 billion, $58 billion (estimated) Iraq War
• FY2006 Department of Defense appropriations: Total $50 billion, $40 billion (estimated) Iraq War.
• FY2006 Emergency Supplemental: Operations Global War on Terror; Activities in Iraq & Afghanistan: Passed February 2006, Total $72.4 billion, $60 billion (estimated) Iraq War
• FY2007 Department of Defense appropriations: $70 billion (estimated) for Iraq War-related costs<
• FY2007 Emergency Supplemental (proposed) $100 billion
• FY2008 Bush administration proposed around $190 billion for the Iraq War and Afghanistan
• FY2009 Obama administration proposed around $130 billion in additional funding for the Iraq War and Afghanistan.
• FY2010 Obama administration proposes around $159.3 billion for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Indirect and delayed costs​

According to a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report published in October 2007, the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could cost taxpayers a total of $2.4 trillion by 2017 including interest. The CBO estimated that of the $2.4 trillion long-term price tag for the war, about $1.9 trillion of that would be spent on Iraq, or $6,300 per US citizen.

A Congressional Research Service (CRS) report (conducted after the 2010 end of combat operations and 2011 withdrawal) was released in December 2014. It placed the cost of the war operations in Iraq as of January 1, 2014, at $815 billion out of the total $1.6 trillion approved by Congress since September 2001.

Joseph Stiglitz, former chief economist of the World Bank and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, and Linda Bilmes, a Harvard University professor and former official at the U.S. Department of Commerce, forecast that the total cost of the Iraq War to the United States will be three trillion dollars in a moderate scenario, described in their book about the budgetary and economic costs of the war The Three Trillion Dollar War and possibly more in a study published in March 2008.\ Stiglitz has stated: "The figure we arrive at is more than $3 trillion. Our calculations are based on conservative assumptions...Needless to say, this number represents the cost only to the United States. It does not reflect the enormous cost to the rest of the world, or to Iraq."

A 2013 updated study pointed out that US medical and disability claims for veterans after a decade of war had risen to $134.7 billion from $33 billion two years earlier.

The extended combat and equipment loss have placed a severe financial strain on the US Army, causing the elimination of non-essential expenses such as travel and civilian hiring.

In 2020, Neta Crawford, chair of the political science department at Boston University, in her Costs of War Project, estimated the long term cost of the Iraq War for the United States at $1.922 trillion. This figure includes not only funding appropriated to the Pentagon explicitly for the war, but spending on Iraq by the State Department, the healthcare of Iraq War veterans, and the interest expense on debt incurred to fund 17 years of U.S. military involvement in the country.

Financial cost of the Iraq War - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

yes pal

TRILLIONS

comrade stalin
moscow

$1 trillion is a lot of money.

Federal fraud is double previous estimates, LexisNexis Risk Solutions CEO says

The federal government is hemorrhaging about $1 trillion per year due to fraud, CEO of LexisNexis Special Services & LexisNexis Risk Solutions Government Haywood Talcove estimates.

www.foxbusiness.com

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Published February 17, 2026 1:52pm EST

Federal fraud is double previous estimates, LexisNexis Risk Solutions CEO says​

His $1 trillion estimate dwarfs the Government Accountability Office's numbers​

 

[mark francis]

It didn't work in Vietnam and USA lost. It won't work in Iran and USA is now the loser.
Islam is still there and will never be cleaned out.
That's an expensive waste of money for no gain.

Fighting for freedoms and rights has never been too expensive for good people willing to fight oppression, degeneracy and tyranny.

 

[Gabriel_Bell]

Fighting for freedoms and rights has never been too expensive for good people willing to fight oppression, degeneracy and tyranny.

Good people who hate tyranny need to evict Shitshizpants and Shady Vance and encarcerate their asses.

 

[mark francis]

Good people who hate tyranny need to evict Shitshizpants and Shady Vance and encarcerate their asses.

Bad people see good people as threats to their lives of unbridled hedonistic indulgences in sins and pleasures.

 

[Gabriel_Bell]

Bad people see good people as threats to their lives of unbridled hedonistic indulgences in sins and pleasures.

There is no way that Shitshizpants and Shady Vance are "good people" Good people do not lie about how they are going to lower prices and then monger useless wars which will raise prices.