The Trump administration is asking Congress for $87.6 billion in supplemental funding to cover the Pentagon’s ballooning costs in its military conflict with Iran. A Pentagon official is set to testify before senators about where, exactly, all that money is going.
For context, $87.6 billion is roughly the entire GDP of Kenya. And some senators have already called the request “dead on arrival.”
What the money covers
The lion’s share of the request, somewhere between $67 billion and $70 billion, is earmarked for Pentagon operational costs. That includes munitions replenishment, operational logistics, drone deployments, cybersecurity operations, and classified programs that nobody will talk about publicly.
Within that bucket, $21 billion is specifically designated for missile and munitions replenishment.
