{"id":150567,"date":"2026-04-29T17:14:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150567"},"modified":"2026-04-29T17:14:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:14:32","slug":"iran-war-price-tag-hits-us25-billion-as-hegseth-defends-record-pentagon-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150567","title":{"rendered":"Iran war price tag hits US$25 billion as Hegseth defends record Pentagon budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe two-month war with Iran has cost about US$25 billion, a Pentagon official told lawmakers on Wednesday, as US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth defended a record $1.5 trillion military budget that faces backlash from Democrats.<br \/>\nAt a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Wednesday, Jules Hurst III, the Pentagon\u2019s chief financial officer, offered the first official estimate of the cost of the war in Iran.<br \/>\nHe said that most of the US$25 billion in spending went towards ammunition, but the US&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/us\/article\/3351905\/iran-war-price-tag-hits-us25-billion-hegseth-defends-record-pentagon-budget?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe two-month war with Iran has cost about US$25 billion, a Pentagon official told lawmakers on Wednesday, as US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth defended&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150567"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}