Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said last week that the Pentagon is spending $7 million to $10 million a day on operations in Iraq, and now Syria, that began Aug. 8 and include airstrikes, humanitarian air drops and the addition of what will soon be 1,600 U.S. advisers and headquarters personnel in Iraq.
The nonpartisan Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments said in a report that the cost of military operations from mid-June through Sept. 24 “is likely between $780 million and $930 million.”
“We’re going to require additional funding from Congress as we go forward,” Hagel said at a Pentagon press conference on Sept. 26.