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                    </figure><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirms new estimate cost for the Iran war: $37.5 billion. <a href="https://t.co/rlQMz6p2jh">pic.twitter.com/rlQMz6p2jh</a></p>&mdash; CSPAN (@cspan) <a href="https://x.com/cspan/status/2079663131832238353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.x.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Protestors continuously interrupt Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during his opening statement: &quot;Stop bombing our children in Iran and Palestine - this is illegal!&quot; <a href="https://t.co/NAT3vR5j2p">pic.twitter.com/NAT3vR5j2p</a></p>&mdash; CSPAN (@cspan) <a href="https://x.com/cspan/status/2079655171903078848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.x.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://x.com/SenJackReed?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenJackReed</a> (D-RI) to Hegseth on Hormuz closure: &quot;Your fallback to the Biden administration is... gross negligence... you did not fully inform the president that you had been in a situation where the Strait of Hormuz could be effectively closed.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/KtOhIsUfUw">pic.twitter.com/KtOhIsUfUw</a></p>&mdash; CSPAN (@cspan) <a href="https://x.com/cspan/status/2079667834376872089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.x.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://x.com/SenJohnKennedy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenJohnKennedy</a> grills Hegseth and Caine on Iran war: &quot;Gosh! We need straight answers... do we have the ability to destroy whatever is underneath Pickaxe Mountain?<br>Hegseth: &quot;If anybody in the world could reach anything on God&#39;s green earth, it&#39;s the United States military.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/sEi29mBrvP">pic.twitter.com/sEi29mBrvP</a></p>&mdash; CSPAN (@cspan) <a href="https://x.com/cspan/status/2079669735243776087?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.x.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
</div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Pete Hegseth refuses to answer <a href="https://x.com/SenOssoff?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenOssoff</a> (D-GA), on whether his past statement that Iran&#39;s military had been &quot;destroyed and made combat ineffective&quot; was true or false. <a href="https://t.co/ufAGO2DtlE">pic.twitter.com/ufAGO2DtlE</a></p>&mdash; CSPAN (@cspan) <a href="https://x.com/cspan/status/2079690166667772032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.x.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sen. Gillibrand (D-NY) grills Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth: &quot;You are asking for unlimited money for bombs when people can&#39;t feed their families.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/PuKXXpJZsZ">pic.twitter.com/PuKXXpJZsZ</a></p>&mdash; CSPAN (@cspan) <a href="https://x.com/cspan/status/2079695415260115455?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.x.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Hegseth and <a href="https://x.com/SenGaryPeters?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenGaryPeters</a> (D-MI) heated argument: <br>Peters: &quot;You sir, are the failure — not the men and women who are on that front line.&quot;<br>Hegseth: &quot;You won&#39;t show any political courage to actually fund our department because you have Trump derangement syndrome...&quot; <a href="https://t.co/Ql1wB2np3r">pic.twitter.com/Ql1wB2np3r</a></p>&mdash; CSPAN (@cspan) <a href="https://x.com/cspan/status/2079700513445364158?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.x.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>

🎥Billions of dollars: What the war with Iran cost the US so far