Pentagon Running Out of Cash Despite Near-$1 Trillion Defense Budget

📉 PENTAGON — A trillion-dollar budget; not enough cash to run an active war. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Sustained CENTCOM operations — 80+ strike packages, carrier group deployments, munitions burn at wartime rate — drain supplemental funds faster than appropriations replenish. If Pentagon is signaling cash constraints to NBC mid-campaign, it's also signaling to Tehran: the strike tempo has a ceiling. That's leverage Iran will read.