The Iran War’s Other Bill — And You’re Paying It

“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently told Congress that the U.S. government has spent an estimated $37.5 billion to date on the Iran war and requested an additional $67 billion in emergency funding,” Mother Jones reports.

“But there are several hidden costs that don’t factor into Hegseth’s accounting—ones that the rest of us are actually paying.”

“The most obvious example is increased fuel prices… The jump in fuel prices has raised the cost of airline tickets, and delivery fees for Amazon, UPS, FedEx and the U.S. Postal Service have gone up as much as 8 percent. Because trucks carry more than 70 percent of goods in the U.S. higher diesel prices affect almost everything on store shelves, including groceries.”