“U.S. officials detected unidentified drones above the Washington Army base where Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth live,” the Washington Post reports.

“Officials have not determined where they came from.”

“The military is monitoring potential threats more closely because of the heightened alert level as the United States and Israel strike Iran… Multiple drones were spotted over Fort McNair on a single night in the last 10 days, prompting increased security measures and a meeting at the White House to discuss how to respond.”

“President Trump’s administration is considering deploying thousands of U.S. troops to reinforce its operation in the Middle East, as the U.S. military prepares for possible next steps in its campaign against Iran,” Reuters reports.

“The deployments could help provide Trump with additional options as he weighs expanding U.S. operations, with the Iran war well into its third week.”

“The Pentagon has asked the White House to approve a more than $200 billion request to Congress to fund the war in Iran, in an enormous new ask that is almost certain to run into resistance from lawmakers opposed to the conflict,” the Washington Post reports.

“That number would far surpass the costs of the administration’s massive airstrike campaign to date and instead seek to urgently increase production of critical weaponry expended as U.S. and Israeli forces have struck thousands of targets over the past three weeks.”

“Two top intelligence officials directly contradicted one of the Trump administration’s justifications for going to war with Iran, repeating on Wednesday the intelligence community’s conclusion that Iran was years away from developing missiles capable of hitting the United States,” the New York Times reports.