The cost of Washington's war in Iran has reached $37.5bn.
That's according to the US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
He told a Senate committee that the Pentagon now needs nearly $90bn in additional funding and says anything less would put US national security at risk.
Al Jazeera’s Eva McKend reports from Capitol Hill.
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