Today, for the first time since the U.S. went to war with Iran, defense secretary Pete

Hegeseth faced sharp questions from Congress.

During the hearing, the Pentagon revealed that the war so far has cost $25 billion.

The fighting is on hold, but the military maintains its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

And PBS News Hour has learned one of the aircraft carriers

currently in the region, the USS Gerald R. Ford will soon head home after a record-setting

10 months at sea. Nick Schiffren reports on a contentious hearing and a partisan divide over the war.

After two months of fighting in the Middle East, the theater of war today was Capitol

Hill and a partisan fight over Iran.

Stop, based on the intel.

Because you yell doesn't make you right.

The U.S. and Israel says its campaign has eliminated more than half of Iran's missiles and drones,

much of its defense industrial base, its entire conventional Navy and Air Force, and has now become

a fight over Iran's chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz.

But Secretary Pete Hegsett said today the threat of Iran pales in comparison to what he

called democratic defeatism.

The biggest challenge, the biggest adversary we face at this point are the reckless, feckless,

and defeatist words of congressional Democrats and some Republicans.

The secretary and this House Armed Services Committee haven't always been that political.

But today, even some previously skeptical Republicans piled on the praise.

Everything I have seen, you have surpassed all of my expectations.

And I just want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart.

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