Democrats in US Senate want ‘true costs’ of Iran war estimated by official scorekeeper

By: Jennifer Shutt

Outlets: DC Bureau (States Newsroom)

Published: May 28, 2026

Words: 317

Last Updated: 1 month, 4 weeks ago

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WASHINGTON — A group of U.S. Senate Democrats has sent a letter to the head of the Congressional Budget Office, asking him to include outside projections for the cost of the Iran war in the agency’s official cost estimate.

“The American people deserve to know the true costs of this conflict, and they deserve transparency and honesty when their government commits the nation to war,” the senators wrote in the May 27 letter to the …

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