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The Pentagon reported the Iran war cost $45 billion while quietly acknowledging massive gaps in the accounting. Reddit users say at least 30 Republican Benghazi hearings happened but none on Trump's Iran war.
The Pentagon reported the Iran military campaign cost $45 billion while internally acknowledging it couldn't account for massive spending gaps. The discrepancy between the public number and what's actually been spent remains unknown. Meanwhile, observers note that congressional Republicans held at least 30 hearings on Benghazi costs but have held none on the full accounting of Trump-era Iran operations.
This is a straightforward accounting problem with a political tilt. Congress can't authorize spending it doesn't know about, and the public can't evaluate foreign policy costs without real numbers. The asymmetry in scrutiny — intense focus on one administration's military decisions, silence on another's — shows how hard it's become to get baseline transparency on defense spending.
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