Donald Trump posted on social media that the hardworking American taxpayer would provide insurance and pay for US naval escorts to protect oil tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz after Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) declared the waterway was closed, their response to the illegal US and Israeli attack on the people of Iran.
Cost of Iran War to the American Taxpayer
Cheap insurance and an escort for which you will undoubtedly be charged.
-- Mark Chadbourn (@chadbourn.bsky.social) Mar 3, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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No matter what disasters befall the American economy or whether there is a US government shutdown, the US Congress has ensured that nuclear-powered Israel, a wealthy country that offers world class universal healthcare for all its residents and has a pension plan superior to that of US social security, will continue to receive billions of dollars of American taxpayer funds uninterrupted.
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