The Pentagon told the US Congress that the first week of the war cost approximately $6 billion, with Republicans already expecting the administration to seek more funding, reported the New York Times on Monday. Hindustan Times rwported.
Analysis by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington-based think tank, put the per-day cost at $891.4 million based on Pentagon disclosures about targets struck and assets deployed.
The think tank report noted that Donald Trump’s administration may need to seek supplementary appropriations from the US Congress, as did the George W Bush administration at the start of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars in the 2000s. "Any funding action will become a focal point for opposition to the war," the CSIS researchers noted.
