The Pentagon has released a new price tag for the US-Israel war with Iran, saying it has cost the United States $29bn. The department's comptroller revealed the new total during a Senate committee hearing on Tuesday alongside Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth. The estimate is an increase from the $25bn the official, Jules Hurst, reported to members of Congress in late April, the first time the administration of US President Donald Trump had given an official figure.
He was combative, defensive and occasionally contrite. He vehemently denied, then halfheartedly apologized for suggesting in 2024 that Black children would benefit from being re-parented.
I have not and won't divulge internal conversations. I will say that those of us within the intelligence community continue to provide the president with all of the best objective intelligence available to inform his decisions. This statement reflects Gabbard's consistent refusal to disclose specific intelligence briefings to Trump regarding Iran's likely responses to U.S. military action, despite Democratic senators' attempts to extract details about potential Iranian retaliation strategies.
I want to do a little bit of a lightning round, because it's not often I'll get access to a president of the United States, Cohen said. Come on, man, Obama encouraged him. So, couple questions here: Are aliens real? They're real, but I haven't seen them, and they're not being kept in Area 51, Obama said. There's no underground facility, he continued, adding, unless there's this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the President of the United States.
Top officials from three immigration government agencies are expected to testify before the House Homeland Security Committee, amid heightened calls for oversight of DHS and as lawmakers debate changes to the department ahead of a Friday funding deadline. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acting director Todd Lyons, Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Joseph Edlow will appear before the panel on Tuesday and return to Capitol Hill Thursday to testify before the Senate.
Seriously though, I had this post scheduled for last Wednesday September 28, then rescheduled it to this Wednesday thinking perhaps we'd have a hearing one week later. Nope. Nada. Nothing. And then I forgot the automated post scheduled for today. Oops, sorry about that. That's not to say we don't have January 6 related material to discuss. Use this thread to do so.
