The Pentagon said the first eight weeks of the Iran war cost roughly the equivalent of the combined annual budgets of the Coast Guard, the National Park Service, and the Environmental Protection Agency.
Two months after the United States and Israel began their initial attack on Iran on Feb. 28, a Pentagon official shared an estimate of the war's price tag: $25 billion.
Jules Hurst III, the Pentagon's acting comptroller, delivered the estimate to lawmakers during an April 29 Congressional hearing. Most of that money covered the cost of expended munitions, Hurst said, while some was used for operations, maintenance, and replacing equipment.
USA TODAY reported in March that munitions used in the first six days of the war cost $11.3 billion, according to estimates the Pentagon shared with lawmakers.
The Pentagon's estimated $25 billion for the war is nearly a quarter of the $101.7 billion that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, spent on food stamps in 2025 for about 42.1 million low-income Americans each month, according to a study from the Pew Research Center.
