Pentagon Says US Has Spent $25 Billion on Iran War So Far

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth

Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg

The US has spent an estimated $25 billion on the Iran war, the Pentagon’s budget chief told lawmakers on Wednesday, in the administration’s most complete public estimate of the conflict’s cost so far.

Acting Pentagon Comptroller Jules Hurst offered the figure during testimony alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth before the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday.