Washington (EFE). On Thursday, the US Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, confirmed that the Pentagon will request around 200 billion dollars in additional funding from Congress for the war that his country is conducting alongside Israel against Iran. Hegseth noted that this figure could change in the coming days. «It is evident that funding is required to eliminate the villains,» he commented during a press conference at the Pentagon, where an update on the developments of the conflict was provided, which on Thursday reaches twenty days of attacks. «We will return to Congress and to our representatives to ensure that we have the necessary funding, both for the operations that have already been carried out and for those we plan to conduct in the future,» he remarked about the request, which was anticipated by the newspaper The Washington Post. The Department of Defence received a budget of nearly 900 billion dollars, the largest amount allocated by Congress for the current fiscal year.
The Trump Administration will ask Congress for an additional 200 billion dollars for the war in Iran.
