KELLY,SLOTKIN, COLLEAGUESDEMAND ANSWERS FROM HEGSETH ON COST OF IRAN WAR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- Sen. Mark Kelly issued the following press release:

This week,Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ),Elissa Slotkin (D-MI),and a group of their colleaguesdemandedSecretary of Defense Pete Hegsethfora full accounting of the costs of the ongoing war with Iran.Intheirlettertheyalso criticized the Department of Defense for withholding basic budget information from Congress and the American public even as U.S. casualties and taxpayer costs continue to increase.

TheUnited States is now more than six months into a conflict President Trump initially said would last six weeks. Eighteen American servicemembers have been killed and more than 820 wounded, and over 50,000 troops are currently deployed to the Middle East. In the letter,Kelly...