{"id":704315,"date":"2026-07-22T00:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T00:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/704315\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T00:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T00:42:10","slug":"iran-war-has-cost-us-37-5bn-so-far-hegseth-says-as-pentagon-seeks-billions-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/704315\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran war has cost US $37.5bn so far, Hegseth says, as Pentagon seeks billions more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Most Democrats are opposed to the supplemental funding request, and there is discontent in Republican ranks too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some of the fiscal hawks in the Republican Party want spending cuts elsewhere to offset the budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Either way, the House of Representatives leaves town on Thursday and the two chambers of Congress will not be jointly back in session until September. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Even if Republicans can muster the votes, it&#8217;s going to be a couple of months before the Pentagon can get the funds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The defence department on Tuesday announced the death of Sgt Michael Emmanuel Swinton, a 30-year-old active-duty soldier who was supporting overseas operations in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A day earlier, the military identified two US service members killed in action in Jordan as Pfc Isabella Gonzales, 19, and 1st Lt Tyler Feehan, 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During the hearing, Trump &#8211; who was at the White House &#8211; posted a list of longer, bloodier US wars, noting their duration and death toll. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He wrote on Truth Social that 18 had died so far in the US war with Iran, which began on 28 February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most Democrats are opposed to the supplemental funding request, and there is discontent in Republican ranks too. Some&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-704315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}