“These Senators have just made my job more difficult, but I will get it done, one way or the other, because I always get it done,” he vowed in late June.
Outside of Congress, public sentiment in America is also showing unease over the conflict and its financial ramifications.
A nationwide AP-NORC poll, conducted between July 23 and July 27, found that 64% of Americans believe the war with Iran has not been worth fighting.
In an earlier poll from Reuters/Ipsos, which surveyed 1,262 American adults across the country over June 18 to 22, just 24% of Americans thought that the war with Iran was worth the costs.
On July 21, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was grilled by the Senate Appropriations Committee over the $37.5 billion cost of the Iran war.