Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman.
Late last night, the House approved a war powers resolution.
It would stop President Trump's ability to continue the Iran war without congressional approval.
Seven Republicans joined Democrats.
This comes as the government released a pair of reports that lay out some of the cost of the U.S.
War against Iran.
The Pentagon's inspector general says that through June, the war cost at least $33 billion.
Put that number at $38 billion through August 1st.
One of them comes from the Congressional Budget Office and the other from the Pentagon's Inspector General,
and both of these are independent, nonpartisan agencies.
Both reports detail the extensive damage to U.S.
Bases and military equipment like the U.S.
Naval base in Bahrain.
And this is something the Pentagon has really not wanted to talk about.
The Pentagon inspector general said the Iranian strikes damaged
and destroyed, quote, hundreds of buildings and structures at U.S.
Bases.
And it listed eight countries in the region where this has happened.
NPR's Greg Myrie reporting.
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