What US spending on the war in Iran could fund instead [TIME] ↳

The U.S. has already spent at least $12 billion on its war with Iran in just the first two weeks of the conflict — a sum that exceeds the entirety of Trump's cuts to humanitarian aid in his first term, and that critics argue could instead fund nearly three years of U.S. foreign assistance at current levels. TIME breaks down what that spending could have covered.

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