The Pentagon’s official estimate of the direct financial cost of the U.S. war on Iran is a nearly threefold undercount of the actual price tag of the war, according to an expert analysis published Wednesday. Stephen Semler, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, produced the new cost estimate for the Popular Information newsletter. Accounting for armament use…
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That’s kind of a coincidence, as a different article currently a few above this one on my feed has the title:
Republican plan to fund Trump’s ballroom and immigration enforcement would cost taxpayers $72B
Why is everything around trump costing $72B a pop?
Wait so they lied? Or was he just joking and we don’t get it?
There’s gotta be a simple explanation here that doesn’t make me look like clown shoes for buying thousands in trump merch and parading it around like cheerleader.
That number will only go up with time, given how quagmire-esque it has already become.
The only question I really have is whether any Democrats running for Congress are interested in curbing presidential war powers. Because I don’t see any end for this in sight. Not in 2027. Not in 2029. Maybe in 2033, if we’re lucky.
Great job deflecting from an entirely Republican topic to bringing in the Democrats. Great stuff.
What’s $72 billion good for though? That’s only like 5 months worth of ICE funding.
