Pentagon Says Cost of Iran War Reached $25 Billion in First Two Months

Articles | April 30, 2026 | by Catholics for Catholics

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Acting War Department Comptroller Jules Hurst said expended U.S. weapons accounted for most of the U.S. cost of the Iran conflict.

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War is an expensive business.

So far warfare operations against Iran have come with a price tag to the U.S. military of about $25 billion in the first two months, a top Pentagon bookkeeping official told House Armed Services Committee members on April 29.

According to a story by The Epoch Times, the hearing that was held on Wednesday denoted the first time Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine have testified in public to Congress since U.S. and Israeli forces started the attacks on Iran on Feb. 28. Both sides traded fire for about five and a half weeks before the parties agreed to a temporary truce on April 8.

Trump officials have been working on presenting a supplemental funding request to Congress to cover the war’s costs, but has yet to finalize it or settle on precise numbers.

“We will formulate a supplemental through the White House that will come to Congress once we have a full assessment of the cost of the conflict,” said Jules Hurst, the acting War Department comptroller.

In the meantime, Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.), the ranking member on the committee, asked the Pentagon to explain for the costs of U.S. munitions used as well as for equipment destroyed in the course of the fighting.

Rep. Adam Smith finally forces the Pentagon to confess. Acting Comptroller Jules Hurst admits the Trump administration has already blown a staggering 25 BILLION dollars on their disastrous war with Iran. They hid the true cost from the public for as long as possible. pic.twitter.com/JF96lPhd39

— Furkan Gözükara (@FurkanGozukara) April 30, 2026

Hurst projected those costs at about $25 billion. Munitions accounted for most of it, Hurst said, but he also took into account operations and maintenance and equipment replacement expenses. Hurst joined Hegseth and Caine at the hearing, as Congress weighs military funding requests for fiscal year 2027.

Already, the Pentagon is seeking a $1.5 trillion military and defense spending budget for fiscal year 2027. The budget amounts to a 42 percent increase over fiscal year 2026 military spending, which totaled approximately $1.03 trillion.

The 2027 military budget request seeks $52.9 billion to boost procurement for 12 weapons systems that the Pentagon has classified as critical munitions.