The War on Iran Is More Expensive Than You Think
In the first two weeks of its war on Iran, the US spent an estimated $2.1 billion a day. It’s no wonder Donald Trump is saying that the cost of war means the federal government can’t afford to spend money to help Americans meet their basic needs.
The Trump administration refuses to disclose how much its war on Iran has cost and prefers the topic not be discussed. The best estimate is that the US spent $28.7 billion in the first two weeks of the conflict, or $2.1 billion a day on average. (US Navy via Getty Images)
If Donald Trump can be depended on for anything, it’s saying the quiet part out loud.
At an Easter lunch event at the White House yesterday, the president explained that the cost of war meant the the US government couldn’t afford to spend money on helping Americans meet their basic needs:
The United States can’t take care of daycare. That has to be up to a state. We’re a big country. We have fifty states. We have all these other people; we’re fighting wars. We can’t take care of daycare. You’ve got to let a state take care of daycare, and they should pay for it too. Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things. . . . You can’t do it on a federal [level]. We have to take care of one thing: military protection — we have to guard the country.
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