Iran war has cost taxpayers $38B — and counting - POLITICO

The Congressional Budget Office said the prolonged military campaign will hit $2 billion to $3 billion a month…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/15/iran-war-cbo-01077533

 

Workers racing to turn reflecting pool blue for Trump may be at risk, union warns

Other companies that do similar work have expressed indignation over being denied the chance to compete for the contract, according to Herbert Zaldivar, the business development director of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, who has visited the site as an observer. 

Now the award is threatening to boomerang amid disclosures that Trump drastically understated the contract’s cost, and reports that officials at the Department of the Interior – which has responsibility for the site – are dissatisfied with the company’s work… 

Meanwhile, the contract’s true cost – which Trump initially told journalists would be $1.8m – has been revealed to be $13.1m…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/17/trump-washington-dc-reflecting-pool

 

EV Road Trip 2025: We Drove an EV 1,100 Miles - Here's What Happened!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FeOpQ2yFiQ

 

Why fired Justice Dept. pardon attorney says Trump pardons cost $1B - The Washington Post

She arrived at the number by adding up all the money that people who were pardoned allegedly owed in restitution, based on how much they were convicted of stealing. Some pardon recipients had not been sentenced, which means that a judge had not yet ruled on prosecutors' calculations of what they owed back to their victims…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/05/01/liz-oyer-trump-pardons-restitution-1-billion/

Billion-dollar weather disasters are soaring again this year. Here’s why. - The Washington Post

Eleven disasters — mostly severe thunderstorm outbreaks — have produced a price tag over $25 billion in the United States, second most on record to date...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/06/11/weather-disasters-tornadoes-storms-billion-dollar/

The Steep Cost of Ron DeSantis’s Vaccine Turnabout - The New York Times

That left the state particularly vulnerable when the Delta variant hit that month. Floridians died at a higher rate, adjusted for age, than residents of almost any other state during the Delta wave, according to the Times analysis. With less than 7 percent of the nation's population, Florida accounted for 14 percent of deaths between the start of July and the end of October. 

Of the 23,000 Floridians who died, 9,000 were younger than 65. Despite the governor's insistence at the time that "our entire vulnerable population has basically been vaccinated," a vast majority of the 23,000 were either unvaccinated or had not yet completed the two-dose regimen...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/22/us/politics/ron-desantis-covid.html

Revealed: US cities refusing to replace toxic lead water pipes unless residents pay

…some US cities are now essentially telling residents: pay up for the replacement or get more poison in your water…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/20/us-cities-force-residents-pay-thousands-replace-lead-pipes-risk-drinking-toxic-water

Get Internet | The White House

Learn how President Biden is reducing the cost of high-speed internet and find out if you qualify to sign up.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/getinternet/

Opinion | The double standard for GOP vs. Democratic budget bills - The Washington Post

…In other words, the $3.5 trillion headline refers to only one side of the ledger. However, Democrats plan to pay for at least some of these priorities with various offsets, such as higher taxes on corporations and the wealthy. Once you include the offsets, the net cost will be lower…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/09/double-standard-gop-vs-democratic-budget-bills/

What’s the average cost of a COVID-19 hospital stay? - PolitiFact

…The median charge amount for a COVID-19 hospitalization ranged from $34,662 for patients ages 23 to 30, to $45,683 for people ages 51 to 60, according to FAIR Health…

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/sep/02/pramila-jayapal/whats-average-cost-covid-19-hospital-stay/

U.S. Global War on Terror Has Taken Nearly 1 Million Lives

… Tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers have returned from foreign war zones maimed and traumatized, turning many into long-term dependents of the federal government. The cost of providing disability and medical care for these veterans is likely to exceed $2.2 trillion by 2050 from its current post-9/11 total of $465 billion, bringing the total economic bill of the wars to $8 trillion…

https://theintercept.com/2021/09/01/war-on-terror-deaths-cost/

Giuliani associate told ex-CIA officer a Trump pardon would 'cost $2m’ – report

John Kiriakou, who was jailed in 2012 for identity leak, said his pursuit of a pardon came up in a meeting with Giuliani last year...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/17/rudy-giuliani-associate-john-kiriakou-trump-pardon

Nearly 1 in 4 Americans are skipping medical care because of the cost

For many Americans, a trip to the doctor hinges on whether they can afford to go, rather than if it’s a medical necessity. Over the past year, 22% of Americans say they have steered clear of some sort of medical care — including doctor visits, medications, vaccinations, annual exams, screenings, vision checks and routine blood work — because of the expense, according to a recent online survey of roughly 2,500 U.S. adults conducted on behalf of Bankrate.....
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/11/nearly-1-in-4-americans-are-skipping-medical-care-because-of-the-cost.html

'Get Your Mops & Buckets Ready!' — Trump's Infuriating Answer To Rising Seas | HuffPost

President Donald Trump slammed a sea wall proposal for New York while planning an ocean barrier for his Irish golf resort amid global warming.....
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mops-and-buckets-trump-climate-change_n_5e23a83dc5b674e44b993aab

The Cost of Next-Day Delivery: How Amazon Escapes The Blame For Its Deadly Last Mile - BuzzFeed News

Deaths and devastating injuries. A litany of labor violations. Drivers forced to urinate in their vans. Here is how Amazon's gigantic, decentralized, next-day delivery network brought chaos, exploitation, and danger to communities across America.....
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/amazon-next-day-delivery-deaths

Tariffs could cost U.S. families up to $1,000 a year, JPMorgan forecasts - The Washington Post

American consumers have been largely shielded from previous rounds of tariffs. But that will change when 10 percent levies on $112 billion in Chinese goods take effect Sept. 1.....
https://beta.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/08/20/trumps-trade-war-comes-consumers-tariffs-will-cost-us-families-year-jp-morgan-forecasts/

Moody’s Analytics says climate change could cost $69 trillion by 2100 - The Washington Post

The consulting firm Moody’s Analytics says climate change could inflict $69 trillion in damage on the global economy by the year 2100, assuming that warming hits the two-degree Celsius threshold widely seen as the limit to stem its most dire effects.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/moodys-analytics-says-climate-change-could-cost-69-trillion-by-2100/2019/07/02/f9fb94ac-99cb-11e9-916d-9c61607d8190_story.html

Trump’s steel tariffs cost U.S. consumers $900,000 for every job created, experts say - The Washington Post

Pressure is growing on Trump to remove steel and aluminum tariffs.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/05/07/trumps-steel-tariffs-cost-us-consumers-every-job-created-experts-say/

Melting permafrost in Arctic will have $70tn climate impact – study

Study shows how destabilised natural systems will worsen man-made problem ....
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/23/melting-permafrost-in-arctic-will-have-70tn-climate-impact-study

A warming Arctic could cost the world trillions of dollars - National Geographic

New science warns that melting ice and permafrost could set off feedback loops that make climate change worse....
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/04/arctic-climate-change-feedback-loops-cost-trillions/