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Video Exclusive - The $72 Billion Iran War w/ @stephensemler.bsky.social Stephen Semler, writer of the "Polygraph" newsletter, speaks with Derek about the actual costs of the war on Iran. youtu.be/oGmgbhEHskA

What has been the real cost of the Iran War in its first 60 days? Higher than the Pentagon's internal estimates, @stephensemler.bsky.social argues in this analysis for @popular.info: popular.info/p/the-real-c...

“Dying empires, governed by the corrupt & the incompetent, r blinded by militarism &hubris.. [Trump’s squandered] at least $29B on the war according to the Pentagon, although analysis by Stephen Semler of Popular Inform’n places the figure closer to $72B” chrishedges.substack.com/p/trumps-ira...

Pete Hegseth told Congress the Iran War has cost $25 billion. Hegseth lied — the US has spent at least $72 billion. My latest for @popular.info: popular.info/p/the-real-c...

From the article you didn’t read:

No it isn’t. The piece explains why.

I wouldn’t trust AI. My estimate is conservative.

6. While the Pentagon doesn't release details of its estimates, we've published a full detailed methodology here. popular.info/p/iran-war-c...

1. Hegseth testified in Congress that the cost of first 60 days of the Iran War cost $25 billion. Internally, the Pentagon says its $50 billion. Popular Information crunched the numbers, and the real cost is much higher: At least $72 BILLION.

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the deeper we get into this mess the stupider and stupider everything and everyone involved is. The bar is in hell and its sinking deeper by the second!

Infinite money for murdering people but NASA is a waste of money right?

Recall when the Bush administration refused to itemize Iraq and Afghanistan. Approximately 70% of the costs for Iraq and Afghanistan from 2003–2008 were handled through emergency, rather than regular, budget processes. Enjoy your healthcare premiums, folks.

Impossível a saúde pública de graça

That’s 1.5x the entire cost of section 8 and other low income rental subsidies in 2025. But catastrophically bad wars of choice don’t fund themselves, you know.

How brave

The US has spent an estimated $71.8 billion on the Iran War, or $1.2 billion per day on average.

Even adjusting out whatever the estimated costs of damages and lost assets that’s 40 to 60 billion dollars in a single month That money could have paid for universal school lunch, head start, and 12 months paid maternity leave for an entire year A better world is possible but they choose this one

Two months of death and destruction or a year of caring for each other in the most unstable time of our lives. That's what's on the table at all times.

We could have paid for nearly every single person's electricity bill in the U.S. this year instead of dropping bombs on Iranians.

Is it good when the acting pentagon comptroller undercounts by a factor of 3?

You know how many ballrooms that is?!

$72bn to fight an illegal war and tank the global economy open.substack.com/pub/populari...

The US has spent an estimated $71.8 billion on the Iran War, or $1.2 billion per day on average.

Massive murder of humans & ecological madness. How blithely the US now bombs!

My gosh. Analyst @stephensemler.bsky.social calculates that the US-Israeli War on Iran has cost *$72 billion* in just 60 days. *288% more* than what the Trump-Vance-Rubio-Hegseth administration claimed it was. popular.info/p/the-real-c...

Pete Hegseth told Congress the Iran War has cost $25 billion. Hegseth lied — the US has spent at least $72 billion. My latest for @popular.info: popular.info/p/the-real-c...

You don't call the Iran War pointless if you are a weapons manufacturer. You call it getting your money's worth from politicians. @stephensemler.bsky.social is tracking how our tax dollars are being spent on this war's human, environmental, social, and economic destruction.

According to @stephensemler.bsky.social, the 60 day Iran War has cost us $72 billion, that's $214 per American $534 per household $679 per tax-payer And it's mostly funded by issuing new debt. Gotta ask my Trump-supporting friends, is this what you voted for?

@stephensemler.bsky.social "The $25 billion war cost given by Pentagon Secretary Hegseth and acting Comptroller Hurst before Congress was a lie. It was a denial of the Iran War’s spiraling costs, one of several foreseen consequences of the Trump administration’s decision to go to war."

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The amount of money wasted in killing our fellow humans is truly braindead stupid beyond belief when you stop and think about it.

Just to be clear, *all* of these things were achieved in that budget...

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No money for healthcare infrastructure housing education No money for ending world hunger and student debt But we can somehow find billions to murder Black and brown bodies at home and abroad

I tried to spend the equivalent of Trump’s proposed military budget. Globally, I eliminated hunger & extreme poverty; in the US, I ended homelessness, covered the uninsured, installed universal pre-K, sent another round of $600 checks, & powered 50% of households with solar. I have $77B left over.

I tried to spend the equivalent of Trump’s proposed military budget. Globally, I eliminated hunger & extreme poverty; in the US, I ended homelessness, covered the uninsured, installed universal pre-K, sent another round of $600 checks, & powered 50% of households with solar. I have $77B left over.

"Adjusted for inflation, Trump wants to spend $260 billion more on the military in 2027 than the US did in 1945. It isn’t World War II-level spending; it’s parody-level." www.stephensemler.com/p/trumps-bud...

A lot of Americans aren't prepared for what's coming because they're not even paying attention to what's happening right now. Chart by @stephensemler.bsky.social

1. This take denies the reality of economic hardship. 2. Biden had abandoned his quasi- progressive economic vision by March 2022. 3. Biden vowed to pandemic era protections permanent. He ended up not, and even went out his way to end several of them.

Budgets are moral documents www.stephensemler.com/p/trumps-bud...

The ADL has gone from a civil rights organization to a pro-Israel antisemitism tollbooth