Donald Trump‘s strategy to defeat Iran is facing more roadblocks as the US weapons stockpile and cash to fund the military operation runs dry.
Further complicating the path to peace, Tehran is refusing to reopen the Strait of Hormuz until Washington pays war reparations, lifts sanctions, and ends its naval blockade.
Meanwhile, War Secretary Pete Hegseth has failed to sell skeptical senators on Trump’s record $1.5 trillion defense budget. The chamber left town for its five-week summer recess without advancing it, or the separate war funding the Pentagon says it urgently needs.
It comes as the Pentagon presses defense contractors to resupply munitions and
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