US President Donald Trump “would be quite interested” in calling on Arab countries to help pay for the costs related to the ongoing US-Israeli war against Iran, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday.
“I won’t get ahead of him (Trump) on that,” Leavitt said at a White House press briefing. “But certainly it’s an idea that I know that he has and something that I think you’ll hear more from him on.” Pentagon officials told the US Congress earlier this month that the Trump administration spent more than US$11.3 billion in the first six days of its war against Iran.
The figure does not include battle damage and replacement of losses, which likely costs the Pentagon roughly $1.4 billion to $2.9 billion over the first three weeks of the war, according to a Wall Street Journal report, quoting Elaine McCusker, former Pentagon budget official who has been tracking the cost for the American Enterprise Institute.
Xinhua
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