What the Iran war has cost us

TomDispatch  - [The National Priorities Project] has a new fact sheet that offers a breakdown of how the cost (so far) of Trump’s Iran “escapade” could have been so much better spent:

+ Covering Medicaid for all 14 million people at risk of losing their insurance,

+ AND the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, for all four million people at risk of losing food assistance, including 3.5 million due to new work requirements for older people and caregivers,

+ AND expanding Medicaid to an additional 10.3 million people.

Those numbers are based on the Pentagon’s request for $200 billion in supplemental funding for the Iran war effort. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was on Capitol Hill on April 30th, supporting a lowball estimate of the war costs as a mere $25 billion (and worth every dollar!) and asking for support for an inconceivable $1.5 trillion for Trump’s war machine in fiscal year 2027.