Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 12/05/2026The same administration that told you America was broke that we “have to gut the Forest Service”, slash public lands budgets, and fire federal workers to save money, just spent $29 billion on the Iran war. In only a few months. 12833621154
Claude the Irregular Dragon (TM) @ruprecht-monkeeboy.bsky.social · 12/05/2026And lest we forget the ballroom. How many Americans will that feed and give healthcare to? 170
Julia Dilliard💙🌊🐴🇺🇦#Resist. 🚫maga. DM's are blocked. @juliadilliard.bsky.social · 13/05/2026It's probably much more than $29 billion. They're lying to us about everything. 😡 000
wonky @wonkywanders.bsky.social · 12/05/2026We have lost so much to this useless war. That amount of money, paired with the amount ICE has pilfered could have made some real, positive changes in this country. 😩🤬 We may never know the actual number of lives that have been lost. 💔 1101
whywerhere.bsky.social @whywerhere.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Everything he touches costs 98% of the population their quality of life. Every deal he's made, tariff he's charged, war he's started and claim he's made. We're at a $40T deficit now with no slowing down. No one is going to stop it. 010
Richard J Laya @richardlaya.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Logic and a little back of the envelope math tells us it’s likely three to five times that amount, at least. Exhibit A. They quite literally lie about everything. And they goddamn surely didn’t lie to the low side about this ridiculous war. 😡 051
Kansas Grant @kansasgrant.bsky.social · 12/05/2026And did so at the direction of exactly one man... 030
fauxrrari1.bsky.social @fauxrrari1.bsky.social · 12/05/2026this is the simplistic version. It would unavoidably be higher, with accumulated interest. As of 12 May iran-cost-ticker.comiran-cost-ticker.comIran War Cost Tracker — First Week Cost $11.3 BillionThe Pentagon told Congress the first week of the Iran war cost $11.3 billion. Track the running total in real time. 020
Steve Downes @stevemdownes.bsky.social · 12/05/2026And plan to spend $1 billion more on a ballroom. 050
Christian Petersen @iwantyoustudio.bsky.social · 12/05/2026It's a "golden age" for the rich. For everyone else, it's just garbage. 0143
zelenooq.bsky.social @zelenooq.bsky.social · 12/05/2026More than 29 billion is what they say I bet it is double 010
be-zen.bsky.social @be-zen.bsky.social · 12/05/2026That's ok. Bill Maher and @fetterman.senate.gov said that $1billion for Trump's ballroom is "couch cushion money." And they wonder why they are loathed. 110
Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Republicans are liars, terrorists, and thieves Exploiting America & masquerading as government 1316
Missmo @missmo1951.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Next agenda item, sell off public land to billionaires to fund a bankrupt country. I can see it now Zuckerberg private park that used to be Yosemite. Musk using his chainsaw to cut down redwoods. Bezos hosting mud spa at Yellowstone including cosmetic surgery center. Fly in of course. 011
KAT-EE @kat-ee.bsky.social · 12/05/2026And yet his frickin picture was put on the America the Beautiful Pass - disgusting. 010
Me and @bjmcgee.bsky.social · 12/05/2026And ICE. The real story after all the dead bodies will be how much this regime spent on pure economic destruction and racial oppression. If I hear one more pundit on TV tell me that the gop is better for the economy than the left, my head may explode. 091
Rosecrucian Roeth @rosecrucian.bsky.social · 12/05/2026This has always been a war of diversion, and wars of diversion are never won nor lost, they are just destroy lives. 010
OneSerenityNow @oneserenitynow.bsky.social · 12/05/2026AND criming out in the open by giving his family Gov contracts AND spending $BILLIONS on his gold ballroom with the ultra safe bunker underneath it. It's almost like he knows We The People will be storming the WH looking to drag him out for STEALING of OUR tax money while cutting healthcare, etc! 010
Lulucaliente @lulucaliente.bsky.social · 12/05/2026If you believe the amount is only 29 billion then I have a nice golden bridge I'd like to sell you. And the job numbers they cook up are fantasy as well. 050
Protest Poet @protestpoet.bsky.social · 12/05/2026And I don't trust them enough to believe that $29 billion is even close to accurate and truthful accounting. 010
Shilayly-Girl-Sassy-Mouth @samiam559.bsky.social · 12/05/2026AND Now wants $1 BILLION for the Ball Room that we didn't need which we were told Doners would pay for. 000
Bill Leibenguth @bill-leibenguth.bsky.social · 12/05/2026I truly believe that the total to date is much higher. 010
Dem-thru&thru @woke1.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Agreed! Every single day we need to scream from the rafters that our Treasury says the US is insolvent! Trump did this! Republicans enable him! 18 U.S.C. § 641 is a federal felony with penalties of up to ten years in prison and significant fines. 011
Nyebodnye @nyebodnye.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Some people don't realise what a billion is. It's that. $1,000,000,000 a thousand million. Then there's Musk who is a trillionaire... Add 3 more 0's 000
Diane @dianesf.bsky.social · 12/05/2026They lied about the cost. It's alot higher the equipment we know about that was lost is worth more than that. 060
occupystephanie @occupystephanie.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Why we can't have nice things...like health care. 010
curmudgeonesse.bsky.social @curmudgeonesse.bsky.social · 12/05/2026A small price to pay to distract from the Epstein files, right? 000
new2tweets.bsky.social @new2tweets.bsky.social · 12/05/2026And, they want another $1+BILLION for a totally unnecessary ‘Ballroom’, how much more $$ for a ridiculous Arch?! How much did it cost to turn the Reflecting Pool in to a swimming pool? This administration is a joke, working to tear down the USA from the inside. 010
mstkindeed.bsky.social @mstkindeed.bsky.social · 13/05/2026And that figure is lower than actual! Does anyone else think this is obscene? 000
Peter #FBPE @musicdealer.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Ah, but dinna worry, Trump and Co got much wealthier……… 010
Women For Survival @wmn4srvl.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Correctiob: $79 billiob. Surprise! Hegseth and DoD are lying. See ongoing Iran war costs live: iran-cost-ticker.comiran-cost-ticker.comIran War Cost Tracker — First Week Cost $11.3 BillionThe Pentagon told Congress the first week of the Iran war cost $11.3 billion. Track the running total in real time. 020
Jay Johnson @roguepolymath.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Yes, but also probably even more than that. 🤬 popular.info/p/the-real-c...popular.infoThe real cost of the Iran War: $72 billion for the first 60 daysPopular Information crunches the numbers. The official accounting is at least $47 billion too low. 2225
NotCrazyinTexas @notcrazyintexas.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Oh, I'm betting it's waaaay more than that. We may never know for sure, but I'm betting this debacle will cost more than $100B. That's not including the global economic impact, which is enormous. 010
cnellsea.bsky.social @cnellsea.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Also to finance his new plane upgrade that was given by Qatar. 010
Cats Are Better Than Men Because @catsbetterthanmen.bsky.social · 12/05/2026And that is THEIR figure. It is probably double that. 030
swellgal.bsky.social @swellgal.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Don't forget the billion $$$ bunker ballroom among other spending sprees trump is forcing the American taxpayer to fund rather than his "donors." 000
Patrick @blackhawkphoto.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Judgment day IS COMING #trumpisGuilty #ElonIsGuilty #NetanyahuIsGuilty RELEASE #AllEpsteinFiles #ImpeachTheRegime Article2 Section4 #Prosecute ALL p-2025 #IceFarceKidnappers #Resist the #CriminalRegime #Occupation #JailMiller Release ALL #EpsteinFiles #Impeach #arrest #Jail #DemocracyMatters 010
Colonel Tom Parker @coloneltomparker.bsky.social · 12/05/2026youtu.be/Lxlzazy8-I0?...youtu.beEverything Was Fine Until It Wasn’tYouTube video by MalcomKizer420 000
SugarsGirl🌻 @sugarsgirl.bsky.social · 12/05/2026That’s not even discussing the golden ballroom, reflecting pool (or pond) & arch for starters. + he got much richer the past year along with the family. 000
David @davidicw.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Correct cbwrong.blogspot.com/2026/05/i-re...cbwrong.blogspot.comI Could Be Wrong. 040
ddunny56.bsky.social @ddunny56.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Don’t forget about trumps golf, reflecting pool, and ballroom. 000
Un granito de arena. @1granitodearena.bsky.social · 12/05/202629 billion to bomb schools, increase fuel prices and lose all credibility. 010
Karl @karlnintendostar.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Forests and public lands are on Trump's J6 2029 target list to burn after blue wins 2028 POTUS elections... And if he succeeds, he can build his Trump MAGA Empire on the ashes of what used to be public lands and forests... We can't and mustn't let that happen! 020
Peggy from PA @peggyfrompa.bsky.social · 12/05/2026static.klipy.comSorry Sad Cartoon CharacterALT: Sorry Sad Cartoon Character 031
Buncula - The Vampire Bunny @nbragg.bsky.social · 12/05/2026This is what deep social illness looks like when it clutches power. Because of the USA's capacity to scale violence through its technology and enormous wealth, future historians are likely to say that America from 2024 to 202X outstripped the horrors of Nazi Germany. 000
Waldorf 🇪🇺 + 🇺🇦 + 🇨🇦 @hmilz.bsky.social · 12/05/2026And wasted about one third of the ammunition stock. 010
Frogzombie @sapofrog101.bsky.social · 12/05/2026A billion a day is a lot more than 29 billion. I'm shite at mathematics but even I can work that out. 020
oasisthemepark @oasisthemepark.bsky.social · 12/05/2026OTP vpstatic.klipy.comJenn Robbins Points at THISALT: Jenn Robbins Points at THIS 000
Mama Murphy☘️ @mamamurphy.bsky.social · 12/05/2026✋ Fired federal worker (HHS) here. Our bureau was wiped out after distributing $178 Billion in Covid funds to keep hospitals, nursing homes and medical offices open during covid. We SAVED our healthcare system and tRump fired us for our service. 000
Average @samedayshipping.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Remember how we can't fund Medicaid or take care of our veterans? Repair schools or build hospitals, and we even have to shut some down? $11,574, per second. 020
Raised by Voles @raisedbyvoles.bsky.social · 12/05/2026The gutting of the US Forest Service began in earnest with the inauguration of George Dubya Bush and his hatchet man Dick Cheney. The same Dick Cheney who as CEO of Halliburton, Kellogg Brown and Root etc spurred on with their private prison industry building binge. Their dreams come to fruition. 061
Juls @jakrause.bsky.social · 12/05/2026And painting a reflecting pool for 13 million, and giving us a STUPID arch for 100 million which will certainly cost more than they said it would. 120
broekn.bsky.social @broekn.bsky.social · 12/05/2026you need to read this MAGA but most of you CAN'T read thanks to American education sabotage - completed by GOP who knew that an illiterate population was easily manipulated they were right but should be held accountable for rendering half of us illiterate 000
Meander @meander77.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Well, you have to deregulate and tighten your belt in a whole lot of places in order to rape and pillage our natural resources, give billionaires tax cuts, get people of color out of the States, create data centers and mass surveillance and conquer other sovereign nations after our own is subdued. 051
RAOK @evolvingempathy.bsky.social · 13/05/2026I agree with the sentiment but it's more like 200 billion so far on the war 000
🇺🇦 Edelweißpirat 🇱🇹 @edelweisspirat.bsky.social · 12/05/2026"They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor" -Tupac 010
Carol Loves the Desert @carollight.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Oh, I see in a post further down that the DOD is now talking about replacement costs for all the munitions, etc. used in Iran. So my previous post may be moot. 010
Carol Loves the Desert @carollight.bsky.social · 12/05/2026And I'll bet those costs are for the munitions used and do not include replacement costs for all of them! 000
Cye A. Sterling @sterlingca.bsky.social · 12/05/2026According to the New York Times it's anywhere between 4 and 200 billion. 020
kangoroo17.bsky.social @kangoroo17.bsky.social · 12/05/2026And wants 1 billion dollars for a ballroom/Bunker for coward Trump 030
What eva @whadevs.bsky.social · 12/05/2026And 13 million destroying the reflecting pool after handing the contract to a friend of his that was suppose to be for a million. Also after a million dollar balloon being paid for by companies now costing us a BILLION dollars!!! 010
Orion @warpfactor10.bsky.social · 12/05/2026$78.8b ⬆iran-cost-ticker.comIran War Cost Tracker — First Week Cost $11.3 BillionThe Pentagon told Congress the first week of the Iran war cost $11.3 billion. Track the running total in real time. 022
Girl from Downers Grove @goodhart1989.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Hey, we also have a reflecting pool and a ballroom to fund... 010
cillairne10.bsky.social @cillairne10.bsky.social · 12/05/2026And is spending $300 million on an unnecessary ballroom and bunker. Think how much good those funds would have done for the American people! 010
🕊GIVE PEACE A CHANCE🕊🏳️🌈☮️🇺🇦 @dogcatcher4.bsky.social · 12/05/2026The unnecessary & endless, Iran war that Americas don't want & Iran doesn't want!! 010
WhenIsThisGoingToStop? @rageagainstmachine.bsky.social · 12/05/2026They are saying 29bln$, the total cost will be in the trillions: world reputation is fucked for generations, soft power no longer existing, kids future in peril, environments fucked for generations and I can go on and on. If this point in time is not worth a revolution, I dont know what is. 🤷♂️ 030
Suz @lily2748.bsky.social · 12/05/2026That is a very low amount, it is probably a much higher amount. 020
Inorganic Fella @sicfella.bsky.social · 12/05/2026That's probably just the cost of munitions and fuel and supplies. The damage to expensive equipment like aircraft and air defense radars and military base infrastructure is probably $29 billion itself. The damage to our credibility and reputation alone is going to cost a lot more than $29 billion. 020
David L Bragen @dlbragen.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Proposed defense budget $1.5T? It makes all those billions look like small cookies, on paper. I am hurting for $50-60. ? Billions look like nothing. Empty zeros. I realize that's not the point though. I hate seeing all the funding cuts, all over the place. Cheaters. 010
Liberal Crone @brendaanna.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Some presidents are creators, others destructors. Guess which one we have now. 081
wileynann.bsky.social @wileynann.bsky.social · 12/05/2026WAY more than $29B. That is only the amount they will publicly admit the war has cost. 0110
Ditsy Von Blunderpants @ditsy.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Don’t forget the billion dollar Panic Room. You know, the hidey hole Trump calls a ballroom. 000
Static in the Sky @meme-ifesto.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Let's Make America Trumpless Again! The reasons are vast. We all know them. Let's all join together on one historic day in action. Let's make our collective voice heard! Heard loudly! Please repost the image and ask others to do the same. Don't forget to add this to your calendar. 020
Samwise @trumpforhell2025.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Don't forget they also are building the most expensive ships ever, have cut taxes for the most profitable class to cut taxes from with the most disposable income, and are actively building a ballroom military installation. 000
Maria Schneider @bearmountainbooks.bsky.social · 12/05/2026And now they want money for a new wing at the White House. And they are throwing money at ICE. Yeah, we noticed. Oh and to paint the bottom of a reflection pool that doesn't need it--to the tune of millions that no one bid on. The job was just given to a crony. 010
jlm @jlm617.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Even worse… the total budget request for the upcoming fiscal year 2027 is $1.5 trillion- with a capital T! #$5Gas 000
Pablo Honey @noninjaskillz.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Let alone that as Prof @justinwolfers.bsky.social keeps telling us, that's just the cost of the hardware without any of the implied economic and financial consequences which themselves continue to rack up as well 010
rebeccaamccoy.bsky.social @rebeccaamccoy.bsky.social · 12/05/2026It’s WAY more than $29 billion on the Iran war. They aren’t telling the truth about any of it. There are way more injured soldiers and bases and equipment damaged than they are saying as well. 010
Democracy-Rising @demsrising.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Not to mention that it's so far a 60 day war, with daily military spending of one billion, which would be at least $60 billion. We have questions. 070
John Russell @murga65.bsky.social · 12/05/2026I wonder if people really know how our public lands are leased to those who turn around and make billions under LLCs that evaporate as soon as the pillaging is done? Then you gut the parts who would at least, marginally, monitor the public resource grab. 0131
jeffreyhf.bsky.social @jeffreyhf.bsky.social · 13/05/2026That number is not close to the cost to date. Hegseth has no credibility. It's a made-up number. 000
🚫👑 @paul-nh.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Not to mention the current administration added TWO TRILLION to the national debt since January of 2025! Americans are being ROBBED by the current THIEF in chief. 010
JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 12/05/2026probably more... www.forbes.com/sites/sarado...forbes.comCost Of Iran War Has Increased $4 Billion From Initial Estimate, Pentagon SaysPentagon Comptroller Jay Hurst said the estimate increased “because of updated repair and replacement of equipment cost and also just general operational cost.” 022
Happy Warrior 🎙️🐝 @happywarriorbee.bsky.social · 12/05/2026It’s easier to funnel money to your family in a war than when you are paying government employees and protecting our national treasures 🤬 010
onlylovecanfill.bsky.social @onlylovecanfill.bsky.social · 12/05/2026I will let doge know about this 010
YvetteJR718☮️💙♋️ ♎️❌ @yvettejr718.bsky.social · 12/05/2026This Country doesn’t have the right priorities in my opinion. I want to elect people that have the same PRIORITIES I do! I want everyone to have food, shelter, healthcare, childcare & PEACE! 031
David S. Moore @dsm1132.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Don't worry, they're just getting started. Next on the chopping block: Medicare and Social Security. "Waste, fraud, and abuse." 010
TemperanceWycked @foodaprecianado.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Don’t forget the ballroom. For “security” 🖕🏻that guy. 010
Jason M Ernst @jason-m-ernst.bsky.social · 12/05/2026And are requesting $338 billion more just for munitions. Wrap your head around that if you can. 1161
Lesjedon @lesjedon.bsky.social · 12/05/2026$29B to distract from him raping children. It’s not his money, but it is being used to his benefit. 020
Marshall Eubanks @marshall-eubanks.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Middle East rules apply. Multiply that by 10. 010
bossyred.bsky.social @bossyred.bsky.social · 12/05/2026And is planning on spending billions on a golden monstrosity - that was supposed to be paid for by Trump and his billionaire buddies. But if you tear down a building, it’s gotta be put back up somehow - kind of brilliant the way he did it. 040
Nancy @nancy1997.bsky.social · 12/05/2026A war that gave us nothing, but cost us money, lives, and world standing. 000
sirenityresists.bsky.social @sirenityresists.bsky.social · 12/05/2026And bsky.app/profile/sire...@sirenityresists.bsky.social@sirenityresists.bsky.socialWe the people have been taken hostage. We've got to break free and oust this corrupt administration and criminal dictator! #FreeTheUSA 010
Laurie Olson @2lolson.bsky.social · 12/05/2026I am in a CA national park right now. This place is holy ground. Every park ranger is a rock star. So glad to be here. 100
