US Iran war costs surge to $29bn as Pentagon faces congressional scrutiny

Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon have killed 380 people and wounded 1,122 since ceasefire began April 17, including women, children, and rescue workers. Two paramedics killed in Nabatieh attack.

Two months into a war that has cost American taxpayers twenty-nine billion dollars, the United States finds itself caught between the claims of victory it has made publicly and the far more complicated reality its own intelligence agencies are quietly documenting. A fragile ceasefire in Lebanon continues to bleed, Iran has reclaimed access to most of its missile infrastructure, and the Strait of Hormuz remains closed to the world's oil trade — all while Congress begins to ask, with growing urgency, who authorized this war and who will pay for it. The distance between a president's assertions a

US Iran war costs surge to $29bn as Pentagon faces congressional scrutiny

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