US Navy Raids Payroll Funds as Iran War Strains Pentagon Budget

💸 PENTAGON — The navy enforcing Hormuz can't make payroll without raiding its own accounts. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: If confirmed, this inverts the economic warfare framing: Bessent's sanctions track is bleeding the US military faster than it's bleeding Tehran. Navy payroll transfers signal congressional budget ceilings are binding in wartime. Trump's political window — already narrowing per Reuters polling — just got a hard fiscal floor attached to it.