Sailors on the flight deck of Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Delbert D. Black on June 16, 2026. Delbert D. Black is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations to support security and stability in the Middle East. (U.S. Navy)
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration sent Congress an $87.6 billion supplemental budget request on Wednesday, with the majority being directed for the war with Iran.
The supplemental budget request sent to House Speaker Mike Johnson includes more than $67 billion for the Defense Department. It includes $21 billion for munitions, $17.3 billion for operational costs, $2.4 billion for drones, $1.7 billion for readiness and $12.1 billion for other classified programs.
The supplemental fund also addresses $1.4 billion in responding to the Ebola outbreak in central Africa and $11.1 billion to support American farmers.
The request comes one day after the Senate approved a House-passed measure to end unauthorized U.S. military action against Iran in a symbolic congressional criticism of the war.
Since the start of the war on Feb. 28, lawmakers have raised concerns about its costs, especially the need to replenish critical munitions stockpiles that might be needed elsewhere in the world.
During congressional testimony last month, Jay Hurst, the Pentagon comptroller, told lawmakers that the total cost of the war had risen to about $29 billion.
The majority of that was related to operational costs for deployed forces and did not include the cost to repair or rebuild U.S. military bases damaged during the conflict, U.S. officials said.
The U.S. and Iran signed a memorandum last week to end the war and enter into a 60-day period of negotiations on Tehran’s nuclear program and sanctions relief.
The Pentagon’s current fiscal year budget is about $1 trillion, and Trump has requested a $1.5 trillion allocation for fiscal year 2027.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth authored an op-ed in the New York Post on Tuesday in which he defended the Pentagon’s “fiscal discipline” and said the greatest threat to national security is underinvestment in military spending.
