NBC News reported tonight a number the Pentagon has spent weeks refusing to give Congress: $5 billion in damage to American military bases from Iran’s strikes.
In 2021, the World Food Program told the world’s richest man it would take six billion dollars to keep 42 million people from starving. Elon Musk passed. The US government never wrote the check either. Now it’s writing one for $5 billion in damage, on top of the $11.3 billion the war’s first six days already cost.
The bill is going to keep growing, and the Pentagon wants a record budget to pay it. Call your representatives through 5 Calls and Resistbot and demand a full accounting before Congress approves another dollar.
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