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Sachs Claims Trump Iran War Cost Hundreds of Billions Despite Government's $25 Billion Figure

Judging Freedom · Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : The Economic Consequences of Trump's War · May 11, 2026
Sachs Claims Trump Iran War Cost Hundreds of Billions Despite Government's $25 Billion Figure
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Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : The Economic Consequences of Trump's War
"It's a preposterous number. It's a lowball number that makes absolutely no sense. When the first message to Congress came that there would have to be a $200 billion supplemental, and then when the budget for the next fiscal year went in increasing the defense ask by about another half a trillion dollars. It's clear that the $25 billion is some very strange accounting, but not real."
Professor Jeffrey Sachs dismissed the U.S. government's official $25 billion war cost estimate as fraudulent accounting, pointing to a $200 billion supplemental request to Congress and an additional half-trillion dollar increase in the military budget request for the next fiscal year. Sachs argued the real cost is hundreds of billions, directly contradicting official Pentagon figures. This revelation exposes a massive discrepancy between public statements and actual war expenditures.
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