00:01The Pentagon said that the cost of the Iran War has risen to $29 billion,
00:07an estimate that is roughly $4 billion higher compared to two weeks ago.
00:11The rise in defense spending goes hand-in-hand with questions over U.S. President Donald Trump's endgame
00:18and the concern over the country's diminishing weapons stockpiles.
00:22For the second time in a few weeks,
00:24Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced heavy questions by U.S. lawmakers in Congress.
00:30Unlike last time, Hegseth also faced a lot more pushback from within his own Republican Party.
00:36Mr. Secretary, the war in Iran has not only cost 13 American service member lives,
00:42it is also costing American taxpayers dearly.
00:46Tens of billions of dollars and counting,
00:49and that's money that could be helping people perhaps get health care.
00:52But instead we're paying for bombs dropped in a war that American people overwhelmingly opposed.
00:57Seems to me that there's been a different plan almost daily with dealing with this problem.
01:05Hegseth also rejected claims that Washington is running out of weapons stockpiles.
01:10I take issue with the characterization that munitions are depleted in a public forum.
01:15That's not true.
01:16And ultimately we have all the munitions needed to execute what we need to execute,
01:19and we're going to ensure that we supercharge that going into the future.
01:23Iran and the U.S. remain in a standoff in the Strait of Hormuz,
01:26keeping global markets on edge.
01:29As a result, Trump has faced declining approval ratings domestically,
01:33with many U.S. citizens blaming him for rising gas prices.
01:38That was great because of migration and interest in the world's
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