The cost of Trump’s incompetence

 

 
 

The Center for Strategic and International Studies estimates that, as of sometime this morning, the cost of Donald Trump's Iran war passed $10 billion. That's $891 million a day of your tax dollars fueling this disaster.

 

Trump may have told British Prime Minister Keir Starmer over the weekend that the war was "already won," but Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also told CBS's 60 Minutes on Sunday, "This is only just the beginning."

 

While this administration turns to doublespeak to obscure the chaos abroad, the troubles stateside are unmistakable: Gas prices are surging. The U.S. lost 92,000 jobs last month. The economy is in free fall. 

 

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How We're All Now Paying the Price for the Myth of Trump's Competence

The administration's war with Iran is setting a mountain of taxpayer dollars on fire every day—mostly because he doesn't know what he's doing.

By Michael Tomasky

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