Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth unraveled over questions about growing costs of the Trump administration’s war in Iran after he endured more than three hours of questions from skeptical senators in his first testimony about the conflict in more than two months.
Hegseth is urging senators to approve what he is calling “an urgent, necessary injection” of $67 billion into the U.S. military, adding to a Defense Department budget that is now surging to $1.5 trillion. His latest estimate for the growing costs of the Iran war has now reached $37.5 billion.
