{"id":60039,"date":"2026-04-15T08:39:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=60039"},"modified":"2026-04-15T08:39:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:39:31","slug":"the-iran-war-could-cost-the-american-taxpayer-1-trillion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=60039","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>The Iran war could cost the American taxpayer $1 trillion<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60040\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-15-at-8.38.38-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-15-at-8.38.38-AM.png 520w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-15-at-8.38.38-AM-300x205.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"RenderKeyPoints-header\"><strong>Key Points<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div class=\"RenderKeyPoints-list\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<ul>\n<li>After the first six days, the war in Iran racked up costs of $11.3bn, according to the Pentagon.<\/li>\n<li>But one academic believes the total cost will prove much higher, potentially reaching $1 trillion over the next decade.<\/li>\n<li>Such outlays will exacerbate the proliferating U.S. fiscal deficit, says Professor Linda Bilmes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/04\/14\/iran-war-cost-us-taxpayer-trillion-harvard.html\">https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/04\/14\/iran-war-cost-us-taxpayer-trillion-harvard.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60041,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60039\/revisions\/60041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}