{"id":64449,"date":"2026-04-30T08:34:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T12:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noticiasveraces.com\/?p=64449"},"modified":"2026-04-30T08:34:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T12:34:43","slug":"la-guerra-en-iran-ha-costado-hasta-ahora-25-mil-millones-de-dolares-eso-es-mucho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noticiasveraces.com\/?p=64449","title":{"rendered":"La guerra en Ir\u00e1n ha costado hasta ahora 25 mil millones de d\u00f3lares. \u00bfEso es mucho?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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$25 billion<\/strong> is similar to:
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\nThe cost to expand Obamacare subsidies<\/span> for one year.<\/p>\n
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Pentagon officials, mum for weeks on the cost of the war in Iran, have made their first public estimate: $25 billion so far.<\/p>\n
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But what does a cost on that scale really mean?<\/p>\n
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Compared with past wars, and with the overall defense budget, $25 billion may not seem like a large sum. Congress gave the Defense Department $839 billion this year in normal appropriations and an extra $150 billion as part of its big tax and domestic policy spending bill last summer. In 2008, the United States spent $283 billion in a single year of war funding for the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts (in today\u2019s dollars).<\/p>\n
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But by almost any measure, the number is significant. It exceeds the annual budgets of numerous federal agencies. It amounts to around $190 for every U.S. household. It means that, in two months of war, the Pentagon has spent down more than its annual budget for munitions.<\/p>\n
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And of course the war, now in a fragile cease-fire, is not over. \u201cTo state the obvious, $25 billion is not the final bill,\u201d Travis Sharp, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, said in an email. \u201cThe tab is still open.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Even before the war began, military spending was close to a record high.<\/p>\n
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The U.S. defense budget<\/h3>\n
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[0–>Note: While the $150 billion in supplemental funding passed last year is available through the 2029 fiscal year, the administration has told Congress it plans to spend it all in 2026.<\/span>[0–>Source: Department of Defense.<\/span>[-1–><\/p>\n
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The Defense Department will spend about as much in inflation-adjusted dollars this year as it has in any of the last 25 years, a span covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. (As a share of the overall American economy, however, total military spending is on track to be appreciably lower this year than it was during the peak years of those conflicts.)<\/p>\n
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This month, President Trump requested a record $1.5 trillion in his annual military budget, a number vastly out of scale with these historical spending trends. Congressional appropriators are unlikely to adopt such a figure, but the request makes clear the president\u2019s priorities even as the American public has expressed opposition to the war and become preoccupied by economic issues at home.<\/p>\n
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Here\u2019s how $25 billion compares with elements of the current military budget.<\/p>\n
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How the war in Iran compares with annual military spending<\/h3>\n
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[0–>Note: Spending figures for fiscal year 2025.<\/span>[0–>Sources: Congressional Budget Office; Department of Defense; Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.<\/span>[-1–><\/p>\n
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Since Sept. 11, 2001, the government has typically funded wars with special emergency requests known as \u201csupplementals,\u201d instead of incorporating their costs into the normal annual budget process. In mid-March, the president and Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, said they planned to ask Congress for a $200 billion supplemental to fund the war effort, a number higher than what the Pentagon spent on compensation for military service members last year. But mentions of that request have disappeared, and defense officials who testified before Congress on Wednesday didn\u2019t ask lawmakers to find dedicated money to finance the war.<\/p>\n
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Missiles and bombs used to attack Iran \u2014 and jets that were destroyed in the region \u2014 were paid for long ago. When Pentagon officials talk about the cost of the war, they are largely describing what it would take to replace them. Jay Hurst, the acting Pentagon comptroller, said Wednesday that munitions had made up most of the war\u2019s cost so far.<\/p>\n
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Other war costs include extra funding for running overseas bases, and the price tag for fuel and logistics associated with moving ships, planes and service members around the world (especially at a time of high fuel costs). There will also be costs associated with repairing damaged military outposts.<\/p>\n
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So far, the Iran conflict has not involved a ground invasion. Wars involving large deployments of ground troops, such as in Iraq and Afghanistan, have cost much more.<\/p>\n
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How the war in Iran compares with other conflict spending<\/h3>\n
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Here\u2019s how the money compares with some domestic spending programs. As Mr. Trump himself has noted, the government\u2019s resources are not infinite, and military campaigns can compete with domestic priorities. \u201cWe\u2019re fighting wars,\u201d he said recently. \u201cWe can\u2019t take care of day care.\u201d<\/p>\n
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How the war in Iran compares with annual spending on a range of domestic programs<\/h3>\n
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[0–>Note: Spending figures for fiscal year 2025 (2024 for U.S.A.I.D. and child programs).<\/span>[0–>Sources: Congressional Budget Office; White House Office of Management and Budget; Bipartisan Policy Center.<\/span>[-1–><\/p>\n
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The annual budget for government agencies like the F.B.I. and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is less than $15 billion each. The war in Iran so far costs about the same as the annual budget for NASA, which just sent astronauts around the moon. It\u2019s also similar to the cost of expanding Obamacare subsidies \u2014 the policy proposal at the center of the extended government shutdown last year. Those subsidies, if they had been extended, would have cost an estimated $30 billion this year.<\/p>\n
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Of course, the full costs of the war are not included in the Pentagon\u2019s estimate. Already 14 service members have died, according to Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. When the United States goes to war, service members also suffer physical and psychological injuries that lead to long-term health care and disability payments, which are primarily funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs. The Costs of War project, a scholarly group based at Brown University, has estimated that the post-9\/11 wars will ultimately <\/strong>cost $8 trillion, nearly four times the amount Congress set aside in supplemental military funding for those conflicts.<\/p>\n
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And those are just monetary costs.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe costs of war,\u201d said Stephanie Savell, the group\u2019s director, \u201cwere much larger than the Pentagon\u2019s costs.\u201d<\/p>\n
[-1–> $25 billion is similar to:
The annual budget of NASA.
Spending on military aid to Israel after Oct. 7.
Spending by U.S.A.I.D. before it was disbanded.
The cost to expand Obamacare subsidies for one year. Pentagon officials, mum for weeks on the cost of the war in Iran, have made their first public estimate: …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/04\/29\/multimedia\/2026-03-26-iran-cost-comparison-index\/2026-03-26-iran-cost-comparison-index-facebookJumbo.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-mundo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noticiasveraces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noticiasveraces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noticiasveraces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noticiasveraces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noticiasveraces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noticiasveraces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noticiasveraces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noticiasveraces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noticiasveraces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noticiasveraces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}