Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appears before the Senate Armed Services Committee today
after speaking to a House panel yesterday.
House lawmakers were told the U.S. Has spent $25 billion on the war in Iran so far.
Maine Independent Senator Angus King will question Hegseth today about that initial price tag.
There are things in this budget that are very, I think, significant.
The first is.
What is the cost?
They gave a number yesterday.
I want to dig into that.
I think that's a lowball estimate.
And of course, it doesn't count the $650 million a day it's costing us all at the pump.
That's a cost as well that's being imposed on the American people.
He spoke to NPR's morning edition.
Oil spiked to around $120 a barrel in trading today before settling back to around $113.
The spike came after President Trump told Axios News website he intends to keep the U.S. Naval blockade
on Iran until it agrees to a nuclear deal.
NPR's Aya Batrawe reports.
President Trump has rejected an Iranian proposal to open the Strait of Hormuz in exchange
for the U.S. Lifting its blockade on Iranian vessels.