Demand Answers on the Iran War: Costs, Casualties, and No Endgame

Demand a full public accounting of this war with Iran — the costs, the casualties, and whether there is any strategy to end it. Five months in, the Pentagon has spent at least $37.5 billion, three troops were killed at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan on July 17, dozens more were injured and evacuated to Germany, and Secretary Hegseth is now asking for an additional $80 billion emergency supplement on top of a $1.5 trillion military budget request. The public deserves to know what we are paying for. The information blackout Pete Hegseth has imposed is unlike anything we have seen. No press conferences, no embedded reporters, no pool reports. Iran is releasing more photographic evidence of damage to U.S. bases than our own government. The Pentagon only disclosed the deaths at Muwaffaq Salti because the law required it. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reports more troops and weapons are heading to the region, and the Washington Post says we are running low on air defense and long-range munitions. That is not a war that is "totally gone" — that is a war that may be escalating with no endgame in sight. Push for a Senate vote on the war powers resolution that already passed the House. The American people and Congress have a right to know the true cost of this conflict, who authorized it, and what the exit plan is.