{"id":9046,"date":"2026-03-19T00:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T00:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/03\/19\/pentagon-requests-200-billion-war-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T00:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T00:18:27","slug":"pentagon-requests-200-billion-war-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/03\/19\/pentagon-requests-200-billion-war-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Requests $200 Billion Additional Funding for Potential War with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. government official has told The Washington Post that the Pentagon has requested an additional $200 billion budget for a potential war with Iran. This request comes amid intense domestic debates in the United States over the heavy costs such a conflict could incur.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Washington Post report, estimates indicate that a war involving the U.S. and Israel against Iran could cost American taxpayers approximately $1 billion per day. This figure represents only a portion of the direct military expenses cited.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper also noted that the United States alone spent $11 billion in the first week of such a war. So far, no further details have been released about how the requested funds would be allocated or about the final decision by the U.S. Congress on this matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pentagon seeks $200 billion more for a possible war with Iran amid debates over the high costs, with estimates of $1 billion daily expenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}