Senators told Iran war cost $11.3B in first 6 days
Pentagon officials told a group of senators in a closed-door briefing on Tuesday that the war in Iran cost at least $11.3 billion in its first six days, three people familiar with the briefing told ABC News.
The New York Times first reported the briefing and the $11.3 billion figure.
Senators on the Defense Appropriations subcommittee received the briefing, a source confirmed. Sen. Chris Coons, the top Democrat on that subcommittee, told reporters on Wednesday that the $11.3 billion estimate he had seen publicly reported was "roughly accurate."
"I expect that the current total operating number is significantly above that," Coons said when pressed on whether that figure took into account things like military buildup.

Coons also said that while the cost per day is not a "steady state," to "assume that it is well above a billion and a half a day I think would be a fair guess."
The money that has so far been spent to fund operations in Iran comes out of Pentagon funds already allocated by Congress. Congress has not yet approved any additional funding for Iran, and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle say that the White House has not yet made a request for supplemental funding.
-ABC News' Allison Pecorin






