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Angus King: “It's costing the American taxpayers a billion dollars a day.”

Featuring: Angus King, Independent | U.S. Senate Maine

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CNN News Central 4.30.26

Published | Video Starts at 04:44

That's the one that I've been hearing until yesterday, and that's about a billion dollars a day. So that's one way to think about it. It's costing the American taxpayers a billion dollars a day. And the question is there's a tremendous amount of repair necessary at American facilities throughout the Middle east that were damaged by Iran, not to mention the replenishment of the … (04:44–04:48)

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Asserts that the war is costing American taxpayers $1 billion per day.

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