The Pentagon has asked the White House to approve a more than $200 billion request to Congress to fund the war in Iran.
That is according to The Washington Post, citing a senior administration official, Ukrinform reports.
It remains unclear how much the White House will ultimately ask congressional lawmakers to approve.
Some White House officials do not think the Pentagon's request has a realistic shot of being approved in Congress, the senior administration official said.
The report notes that the Pentagon has floated several different proposed funding requests over the past two weeks.
According to multiple officials, the cost of the war in Iran has rapidly grown, exceeding $11 billion in the first week alone.
Shortly after the joint U.S.-Israeli campaign began late last month, the Trump administration started preparing an additional funding request to help cover the costs.
Even before the war in Iran, Trump had called for a $1.5 trillion defense budget, a more than 50 percent increase from the previous year.
As previously reported, the first 100 hours of the U.S. military operation against Iran cost approximately $3.7 billion, or about $891 million per day.
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