The Mounting Cost of War
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Trump weighs escalating the war with Iran as criticism of the conflict grows.
Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic July 25, 2026, 10:56 AM ET Share Save Editor’s Note: Washington Week With The Atlantic is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. Check your local listings , watch full episodes here , or listen to the weekly podcast here . President Trump weighs escalation of the war with Iran as criticism of the conflict grows. On Washington Week With The Atlantic , panelists joined to discuss some of the frustration from Republican lawmakers, voters, and conservative media.
Among Republicans in Congress, discontent is growing over “a lack of answers from this administration on what the objective is, what the timeline is, what the ramifications are, and what the end game actually is” in Iran, Leigh Ann Caldwell, the chief Washington correspondent at Puck , said last night. “When members of Congress are asked to fund billions and billions of dollars, when their constituents are the ones being put on the line for this, patience obviously wears quite thin.”
Joining guest moderator Vivian Salama, a staff writer at The Atlantic , to discuss this and more: Caldwell; Adam Harris, a host of Radio Atlantic ; Jonathan Karl, the chief Washington correspondent for ABC News ; and David Sanger, a White House and national-security correspondent at The New York Times .
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