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Every Dollar Spent on War
Is a Dollar Not Spent on Americans
Since February 28, 2026 · Day 74 of the Iran War
Total War Cost
$0
$21,759 per second
$1.88B per day · $56.3B per month
What That Money Could Buy Instead
🍎
School Lunches
$3.81 each
0.0000
meals
👩🏫
Teacher Salaries
$65K each
0.0000
teachers paid for a year
🎓
Pell Grants
$7K each
0.0000
students funded
🏠
Homes at Median Price
$405K each
0.0000
homes
🏥
Years of Medicare for All
$350.00B each
0.0000
years
🎖️
VA Healthcare Appointments
$350.00 each
0.0000
appointments
🛣️
Miles of Highway
$6.50M each
0.0000
miles
💧
Clean Water Systems (Flint-sized)
$55.00M each
0.0000
cities
Since You Opened This Page
The war has cost an additional:
$0.00
🍎
0.0000
School Lunches
👩🏫
0.0000
Teacher Salaries
🎓
0.0000
Pell Grants
🏠
0.0000
Homes at Median Price
Your Personal Share
Total war cost ÷ 330 million Americans
$0.00
Every man, woman, and child in America owes this much — and counting.
Per household
$0.00
Per taxpayer
$0.00
Per day/person
$5.70
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Iran War · Day 74
$0.00
🍎 School lunches
0.0000
👩🏫 Teachers
0.0000
🏠 Homes
0.0000
🎖️ VA appointments
0.0000
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Cost estimate: $1.88B/day based on projected Pentagon spending, Brown University Costs of War methodology.
Domestic costs: USDA (school lunch), BLS (teacher salary), Dept. of Ed (Pell Grants), Census (median home), CBO (Medicare for All), VA, FHWA, EPA.