Courtney Kube

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Here's the Scoop · Democrats Race To Replace Platner; Is the Iran War Maxing Out the Pentagon’s Budget? · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

So it's confusing.

There's these sort of three big buckets, and they are enormous buckets.

One is this roughly trillion-dollar Pentagon budget request.

Then there is this supplemental.

That was about $88 billion and about $67 billion of that is specifically supposed to go to rebuilding or resupplying what happened during the war in Iran.

Some of that actually is to go to the State Department for...

fixing damage to bases or embassies around the world.

But we know there has been extensive damage to U.S.

military facilities all over that region.

We know that their stockpile has been greatly depleted.

Some of their munitions, their most advanced capable munitions, are down by 50 or 60 percent from where they were before the war started.

So that $67 billion, the best we can understand, because this process has been extremely opaque,

is that that is literally to rebuild what was broken down during the 40 days or so of the war.

What's not clear, if that includes the continuing costs that we're seeing right now, which is two dozen ships that are hanging out south of the Strait of Hormuz right now that could be called back into the blockade, every day that they're operating out there is costing millions.

money.

So the $25 billion or so that was several weeks ago, you've got to assume that it's got to be three or four times that at this point.

So I think the McConnell factor has definitely put a wrench in this and make it difficult.

But even bigger is we are hearing increasingly from both sides of the aisle that the Pentagon and the administration have not been honest with them and transparent about what has been happening in this war.

They've not been transparent about the munition stockpiles, about the overall strategic goals.

And as long as they don't have that transparency, I don't see members of Congress being willing to write that giant check.

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