Dear john,
We're already facing the consequences of the war in Iran.
As of Monday, seven service members have been killed in action and 140 have been wounded, including eight with life-threatening injuries.
The Pentagon has spent $5.6 billion on munitions alone during the first two days of the war.
Experts are estimating that the war has cost between $800 million and $1 billion a day.
Because of the war, gas prices have skyrocketed in El Paso, where we now have the highest gas prices in the entire state.
When asked about rising gas prices, Trump said, "I don't have any concern about it" despite reporting that said there was a scramble across the White House energy and national security teams to develop measures aimed at bringing down gas prices in response.
He continued: "They'll drop very rapidly when this is over, and if they rise, they rise, but this is far more important than having gasoline prices go up a little bit."
But despite Trump saying the war will end "soon," there's still conflicting information coming directly from the Trump administration about a timeline for the war.
On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Hegseth declined to say how much longer the war would last. On Monday afternoon, Trump said the war was "very complete, pretty much" around the same time the Department of Defense posted on social media that "We have Only Just Begun to Fight."
