The $1.3-Million-a-Minute War

OPINION NICHOLAS KRISTOF, The New York Times

March 21, 2026

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• For about $34 billion a year, less than three weeks of war, we could restore health insurance subsidies that the Trump administration let expire last year. One analysis predicted an additional 8,800 preventable American deaths as a result.

To see how many other services could have been provided to American citizens with the money being spent on the Iran war: