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Iran war has cost $25B, Pentagon says. And, SCOTUS strikes blow to Voting Rights Act

war might end [during his combative testimony](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/29/g-s1-119333/the-iran-war-now-has-a-price-tag-25-billion-but-still-no-end-date). ![Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testifies about the Iran

King Charles visits New York after Trump says UK monarch ‘agrees with me’ on Iran – US politics live

Pete** **Hegseth** will face tough questions from lawmakers about the Iran war on Wednesday during his first testimony

How Xi-Trump summit failed to yield Iran war breakthrough

Pete Hegseth testified in Capitol Hill hearings over the Iran war and its rising costs on Tuesday. During his testimony

The Iran war now has a price tag ($25 billion), but still no end date

war in Iran has cost an estimated $25 billion so far, according to a Pentagon estimate. But Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth offered no indication of when the conflict might end during combative testimony

Pentagon chief Hegseth first public hearing on Iran war: Key takeaways

Pete Hegseth has faced his first public questioning from Congress on the [US-Israel war with Iran.](/news/liveblog/2026/4/29/iran-war-live-trump-says-tehran-wants-end-to-blockade-israel-kills-medics) Over hours of tense testimony

War in Iran costs $29 billion so far. And, students are finally improving in math

testimony.  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testifies before the Senate

Trump claims hostilities have ended in Iran in letter to congressional leaders

Pete Hegseth](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/pete-hegseth), the secretary of defense, put forward a similar argument in [his testimony before](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/30/pete-hegseth-iran-war-hearing) the Senate armed services committee, on Thursday. In an exchange with the Democratic senator

US House votes to end Trump’s Iran war: Does it matter?

Pete Hegseth claimed on May 12 that the 60-day allowance given to the president to deploy troops under the War Powers Act means the administration may begin striking Iran again without lawmakers’ approval. Hegseth

Has the US-Iran ceasefire reset the clock on War Powers Act deadline?

Iran, that deadline expires on Friday. But on Thursday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told lawmakers at a Senate hearing that the ongoing yet fragile ceasefire had effectively paused the clock on the deadline. However, Hegseth

Hegseth ‘dangerously exaggerated’ US military triumph in Iran, Senate hears

Pete Hegseth has failed to give [Donald Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump) an accurate picture of the war on Iran while resorting to “dangerously exaggerated” statements to create an inaccurate picture of a US military triumph

Amnesty calls for US strike on Yemen to be investigated as war crime

war crime. In a report released on Tuesday, the rights group said the strike on April 28, 2025, hit a [detention facility](/news/2025/4/28/at-least-8-killed-in-latest-us-air-attacks-on-yemens-capital-saana) in Saada in northwestern Yemen, killing at least 68 detainees and injuring

Weeks of silence over Iran school strike highly unusual, former US officials say

Pete Hegseth was asked by the BBC on 4 March about the strike and said: "All I can say is that we're investigating that. We of course never target civilian targets". The US Department