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Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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Intel Brief: Social Security, the Iran War, and Trump's Attempts to Sow Doubt in Our Elections

Published | Video Starts at 04:21

That's just what the American citizens have paid. Now let's turn to the Pentagon. We haven't gotten clear cost estimates from the Pentagon. In fact, they won't release clear cost estimates. But We believe, based on all the math we've seen that another hundred billion dollars approximately is the cost already of what the war in Iran has cost in artillery, lost planes and ships damage to bases in the Middle east. So that's $200 billion that the war in Iran, we believe, has already cost us. That $200 billion could have paid for, for instance, everyone on Medicare to get free dental, vision and hearing care for six years. (04:21–04:39)

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Asserts that the war in Iran has cost the U.S. military approximately $100 billion.

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