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First 100 hours of the Iran war cost $3.7 billion

Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with defense spending expert Mark Cancian about his tally of how much the war in Iran is costing the U.S. Cancian estimates the first days cost $891.4 million each day.

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