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The Pen­ta­gon is seek­ing $200 bil­lion in ad­di­tion­al funds for the Iran war, a siz­able amount that is cer­tain to be met with ques­tions from Con­gress, which would need to ap­prove any new mon­ey.

The de­part­ment sent the re­quest to the White House, ac­cord­ing to a se­nior ad­min­is­tra­tion of­fi­cial, who spoke on con­di­tion of anonymi­ty to dis­cuss the pri­vate in­for­ma­tion. Asked about the fig­ure at a press con­fer­ence Thurs­day, De­fense Sec­re­tary Pe­te Hegseth did not di­rect­ly con­firm the amount, say­ing it could change.

“It takes mon­ey to kill bad guys,” Hegseth said.