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Live updates: Iran war has cost estimated $25B so far, Pentagon official tells Congress

Nbcwashington · · 4023 words · By The Associated Press
Military Leadership and Personnel Congressional Oversight U.S.-Iran conflict
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25 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced nearly six hours of questioning Wednesday from House lawmakers”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general Wikipedia and government descriptions of the Department of Defense. There is no specific evidence in the search results confirming that Pete Hegseth testified for six hours on a Wednesday.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Department of Defense (DOD) provides the military forces needed to deter war, and to protect the security of the United States.
https://www.usa.gov/agencies/u-s-department-of-defense
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web search NEUTRAL — Defense News is a global website and magazine about the politics, business and technology of defense, serving senior military and industry decision-makers.
https://www.defensenews.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — The United States Department of Defense (DoD), [4] also referred to as the Department of War (DoW), [a] is an executive department of the United States federal government charged with coordinating and…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_…
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“President Donald Trump’s administration launched the war against Iran”
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Multiple independent sources, including Britannica, CNN, and a cross-reference from Axios, confirm that the United States (under the Trump administration) initiated a war/major combat operations against Iran starting February 28, 2026.
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web search NEUTRAL — The 2026 Iran war is a conflict that is centered on Iran and was initiated by the United States and Israel on February 28, 2026, embroiling the entire Middle East region.
https://www.britannica.com/event/2026-Iran-war
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web search NEUTRAL — Did Trump need Congress' approval to attack Iran? In his 28 February video announcement, Trump described the US-Israel attacks on Iran as "major combat operations". As commander in chief, a president …
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c626ljyvmg3o
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web search NEUTRAL — The United States launched direct strikes against Iran on early Sunday local time, the first time since the Iranian revolution in 1979 that the US has deployed assets to target major facilities in the…
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2025/06/world/us-iran-confli…
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“Trump... is rejecting Iran’s proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for a lift of the U.S. blockade”
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Three separate web search results explicitly state that President Trump rejected Iran's proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for lifting the U.S. blockade.
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web search NEUTRAL — Why it matters: Trump is rejecting an Iranian proposal to first open the Strait of Hormuz and lift the blockade, while postponing nuclear talks to a later stage.
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/29/trump-iran-nuclear-deal-blo…
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web search NEUTRAL — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump rejected Iran’s proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for lifting a U.S. naval blockade, deepening a standoff that has disrupted global oil shipping.
https://www.orbitbrief.com/iran-war-trump-rejects-hormuz-blo…
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web search NEUTRAL — US President Donald Trump has rejected Iran’s proposal to open Strait of Hormuz and lift the blockade outright. In an interview with Axios, Trump defended the blockade as more effective than direct mi…
https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/trump-rejects-iran-off…
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“Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine have held televised Pentagon briefings”
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Three independent sources confirm that General Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has held televised Pentagon briefings regarding the war in Iran.
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web search NEUTRAL — Dan Caine have held televised Pentagon briefings. Hegseth has mostly taken questions from conservative journalists, while citing Bible passages to castigate mainstream outlets.
https://www.gulftoday.ae/news/2026/04/29/iran-war-has-cost-u…
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web search NEUTRAL — Hegseth has avoided public questioning from lawmakers about the war, although he and Caine have held televised Pentagon briefings. During a White House state dinner on Tuesday, Trump told Britain's Ki…
https://www.trtworld.com/article/e54bf3d958f1
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web search NEUTRAL — Caine states that Iran has launched attacks on US forces over 10 times since the ceasefire commenced. General Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, conducts a briefing on the war in Iran a…
https://xenixnews.com/hegseth-caine-pentagon-briefing-securi…
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“bombing of an elementary school that killed children”
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Wikipedia explicitly documents the '2026 Minab school attack' where the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School was destroyed on February 28, 2026. This is further corroborated by KTVU FOX 2 reporting on the deaths of children.
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web search NEUTRAL — On 28 February 2026, the first day of the 2026 Iran war, the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School, providing co-located single-gender education, of the Shahrak-e Al-Mahdi neighbourhood in Minab, Hormoz…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_attack
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web search NEUTRAL — The U.S. military is investigating if it’s responsible for a deadly missile strike on an elementary school in Iran that killed over 165 people, many of them children, in the opening hours of the war o…
https://www.ktvu.com/news/iran-girls-school-bombed-us-pentag…
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web search NEUTRAL — Keeping schools open and safe during war means more than the hours children spend in classrooms; it represents a promise of life beyond the rubble. For children, classrooms provide stability; for pare…
https://capitalpost.uk/politics/defence-security/iran-school…
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“USS Ford aircraft carrier heading home after record-breaking deployment”
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Multiple sources confirm the USS Gerald R. Ford is returning home to Norfolk after an extended deployment protecting Israel.
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web search NEUTRAL — USS Gerald R. Ford is an aircraft carrier of the United States Navy and the lead ship of her class.Ford's death. This makes the aircraft carrier one of the few U.S. ships named after a living person.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Gerald_R._Ford
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web search NEUTRAL — FILE - USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier refuels from the underway replenishment oiler USNS Laramie in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, Oct.The Ford was sent to the Eastern Mediterranean to be within …
https://www.voanews.com/a/us-aircraft-carrier-returning-home…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Norfolk-based USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier strike group is heading home after months of extra duty at sea protecting Israel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSnHSM7lktU
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“The world’s largest aircraft carrier had been at sea for more than 300 days, including participating in the war against Iran and capture of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro”
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web search NEUTRAL — The prefix "USS," meaning "United States Ship," is used in official documents to identify a commissioned ship of the Navy. It applies to a ship while she is in commission.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_ships_of_the_U…
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web search NEUTRAL — Learn about the vessels of the U.S. Navy. Explore submarines, carriers, cruisers, destroyers, amphibious craft, combat ships, and the USS New York.
https://www.navy.com/vessels
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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 14, 2026 · The U.S. Navy will commission the future Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ship USS Cleveland (LCS 31) on May 16, 2026, in Cleveland, Ohio.
https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/Press-Releases/display-pre…
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“The Ford will be leaving the Middle East in the coming days and returning to its home port in Virginia in mid-May”
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The evidence provided for this claim consists of general Navy ship lists and a commissioning date for a different ship (USS Cleveland). There is no evidence confirming the Ford's specific return date to Virginia in mid-May.
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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 14, 2026 · The U.S. Navy will commission the future Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ship USS Cleveland (LCS 31) on May 16, 2026, in Cleveland, Ohio.
https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/Press-Releases/display-pre…
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web search NEUTRAL — The prefix "USS," meaning "United States Ship," is used in official documents to identify a commissioned ship of the Navy. It applies to a ship while she is in commission.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_ships_of_the_U…
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web search NEUTRAL — Learn about the vessels of the U.S. Navy. Explore submarines, carriers, cruisers, destroyers, amphibious craft, combat ships, and the USS New York.
https://www.navy.com/vessels
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“The ship broke the U.S. record this month for the longest post-Vietnam War deployment, a nearly 10-month span after leaving Naval Station Norfolk in June”
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“Trump says US is weighing reducing American troop presence in Germany”
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“German Chancellor Friedrich Merz”
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“Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi... spent Wednesday conducting a string of phone calls with the foreign ministers of India, Kenya and Poland, along with the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross Mirjana Spoljaric and Nabih Berri, the speaker of the Lebanese parliament”
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“Araghchi conducted a whirlwind diplomatic tour, visiting Oman and Pakistan on Sunday then Moscow on Monday for a sit-down with Russian President Vladimir Putin”
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“Hegseth told lawmakers that he ordered the names of two female and two Black officers from a promotion list”
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“Army Secretary Dan Driscoll previously testified before a congressional committee that he refused to strike the officers’ names”
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“Hegseth told lawmakers that, as of yesterday, the Pentagon is allowing $400 million of Ukraine aid to be spent”
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“2 people killed in a clash with police in Iran... in the Gach Berin area in the city of Iranshahr”
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“Americans saw the largest monthly jump in gas prices in six decades during the war with Iran”
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“the current average is $4.23 a gallon”
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“the oil-rich nation’s decision to leave OPEC and OPEC+ on May 1”
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“Putin... renewed his offer for Russia to serve as a third country that could deal with Iran’s 970 pounds of enriched uranium”
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“Narges Mohammadi... has been imprisoned for several periods since 2016... sentenced on Feb. 8 to 7 1/2 years”
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“deaths of six American soldiers who were stationed in Kuwait and killed by an Iranian drone”
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“Ultra-orthodox Jews are protesting Israel’s draft law throughout Israel this week”
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“Hegseth... fired the Army’s top uniformed officer, Gen. Randy George”
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