The war on Iran cost the US $12.7bn by day six. Here’s how it’s been spent – in charts

I'm sorry Day 6? Aren't we on day 20?

The number is so big for such a short amount of time, it's hard to process. From the article: Cost the same as one year of ... Paying 9% of the US's elementary school teachers Paying 47% of the US's firefighters Medical care for 693,000 veterans 1.5m public housing units Medicaid for 3.6m children

But no money for our starving citizens and healthcare.

This doesn’t cover all the costs btw… like the million dollar missiles we were shooting one after another. Spent more in 6 days than USAID would spend in a year.

And the pentagon is currently cooking up a $200bn request from Congress for continuing action in the region. Nearly over, my ass.

Tomahawk missile: $3.5m. Air defense munitions: $5.7bn. Being despised, denounced, and humiliated on a global scale: Priceless.

That rate plus the fact that Pentagon is asking for $200bn to fund the war seem to clash with Trump's claim that the war is nearly over.

All that socialist shit... Health care, free education, housing. This is the US of Capitalism. Government spending is not meant for people but for governing. Why waste it on people who don't amount to anything anyways and never will? Voters? People will vote for anything as long as you keep them dumb enough to believe your lies. And about that little war... The tariffs will finance it. Promised. If not, the inccrease oil prices will.

Department of education budget is 70 billion. We have priorities all messed up.

Welp...there goes all that money DOGE "saved" us.

And they want me to pay taxes.

And it's just going to climb exponentially, I wonder when the US will hit 40T in debt, or for that matter, 50T.

No graph for the shrimp and lobster purchases?

From the article in The Guardian: >More than 3,000 people are believed to have been killed across Iran so far, and the Pentagon says more than 15,000 targets in the country have been hit in the first two weeks. A girls’ school in the south-eastern Iranian city of Minab lies in rubble, with about 175 children and teachers killed in a strike that the US is believed to have carried out. The strait of Hormuz, the narrow sea passage turned chokepoint for the Gulf’s oil and the world, is, in effect, closed. >And the bill, according to analysts at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, is growing by roughly half a billion dollars every day. >A week after American and Israeli forces began their assault on Iran, and its repressive leadership, Pentagon officials told lawmakers in a closed-door briefing that the cost of the war had already exceeded $11.3bn in its first six days. >But that figure is only part of the story: sources familiar with the content of the briefing told the Guardian the estimate appeared largely limited to munitions expenditures and not the full cost of the opening days of the conflict, which could include forces deployed to the region, medical expenses, and the replacement of military aircraft lost in combat. >By day six, CSIS put the cumulative cost at $12.7bn. Today, it is likely to have exceeded $18bn – and the meter is still running.

And now they want another $200 billion to continue fighting the war.

Why is this being called a war? Did Congress declare war?

i wonder how much trump and co have funneled out of this war? if there is an grift trump will grift.

I just want healthcare

$12.7 billion in six days. That's over $2 billion per day.

Can’t wait to see the baby oil receipts.

They just asked for another 200 billion so enough to fund their war for a little over 3 months

Medicare for 3.7m children is crazy. There are 10m in poverty rn… so two more weeks and the us could pay medicare for all children in poverty.

Wait wait, today they were asking for $200B extra to continue the war. Will the tax payer be ok with that?

Wonder how much the US tariffs have brought in so far, enough to cover the war perhaps?

Does this include the direct US-military infrastructure damage? We're not going to include the civilian infrastructure damage in allied countries...

Lobster Pete is lying. **They said:** We hit 2,500 targets in the first couple of days. **They said:** Iran's air defenses weren't destroyed until the 5th day, so we couldn't fly our jets inside Iran to drop the cheaper dumb bombs. **That means:** We only used long-range expensive missiles during the first 5 days. If a single piece costs $3.5m then we blew $8.8b on the offense alone, in the first 5 days alone. Another $6b on defense, plus our ground losses. ~$16b including the cost of deployment, as of day 5.

And how much has it cost the world in high oil prices, lost business, cancelled flights, higher energy costs…Yeah gee Thanks Mr Trump, we’re really grateful here….now I’ve got to worry about terrorist cells wearing special jackets too….grateful for this ‘opportunity’

Can't spend any money on universal healthcare or education or housing or food or the environment, but can spend unlimited cash on war. Liars and crooks; every last one of them.

Fiscal conservatives love debt 🥰

I don't agree with some of these costs. The munitions had to be bought in previous years/budgets to be used. Will they be replenished? Yes, but also over years. Why not also include the costs to build the ships and planes, if we go that far?

Firefighters are even more underpaid than school teachers?

Iran is putting BTA on the states 😂😂

What an excellent way to bankrupt the US Treasury, what with the big IRS personal deductions which are not diminished by the now defunct tariffs. Could this be the deal that pres47 made with Russia as part of his re-election strategy? Then there's the other costs, the emotional strain of military members and their families, and the continuing aggravation and frustration that the vast majority of the US population feel towards this unwarranted involvement is Israel's quest against all Islam-majority nations. How does this conflict benefit the vast majority of the US population, now or in the future?