2026-05-27T09:00:07.668Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/27/politics/iran-war-spending-cancelled-trainings-delayed-maintenance
- 由于针对伊朗的行动耗尽军事预算，五角大楼正难以为日常训练和维护提供资金。
- 美军将领告诉国会，其2026财年预算未纳入“史诗暴怒行动”的相关开支。
- 尽管特朗普政府官员曾讨论需要额外资金来支付伊朗战争的成本，但没有迹象表明国会正准备批准更多拨款。
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五角大楼正面临财政紧缩，在针对伊朗的持续行动中，部分日常训练和维护工作难以推进，身着军装的军事将领正敦促国会支持额外拨款。
海军最高将领达里尔·考德尔海军上将本月早些时候告诉众议院军事委员会议员，其2026财年预算“未纳入”“史诗暴怒行动”的开支，并表示海军因此面临“日常行动”受到影响的问题。
他说，这包括必须限制训练演习、飞行训练时长以及新兵训练。
“如果没有额外资金将新兵从新兵训练营输送出去，并支付入伍和续役奖金，我创下的征兵纪录将会受阻，”考德尔对议员们说道。
据美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）获得的一份内部文件显示，位于德克萨斯州、管辖约7万名官兵和数百辆坦克的陆军第三装甲军司令部，在4月底遭遇了近2.92亿美元的训练预算削减。美国广播公司（ABC News）最先报道了此次预算削减。
另一份经CNN审核的4月27日备忘录显示，陆军军医学校取消了数十门课程，并取消了部分课程的集中资助。
五角大楼拒绝对此报道置评。
美军通常不得从特定预算项目中挪用资金用于其他活动，除非国会批准其调整资金用途。日常训练资金通常来自“行动与维护”账户。
美国企业研究所智库的国防预算专家托德·哈里森表示，“行动与维护”账户可用于训练、部署、燃油、差旅、设备维修，甚至部分五角大楼文职人员的薪酬等各项开支。
哈里森说，外部无法追踪五角大楼的实时预算支出，但“他们不得不做出一些权衡，比如取消非必要差旅或训练，这完全是合理的”。
在伊朗军事行动初期，特朗普政府官员曾讨论寻求为军方申请追加拨款，部分官员称相关费用高达2000亿美元。此后政府官员表示这一数字过高，但未提供具体拨款申请细节，也没有迹象表明国会正准备批准额外资金。
代理五角大楼主计长朱尔斯·“杰伊”·赫斯特三世5月12日告诉众议院拨款委员会国防小组委员会，五角大楼对此次冲突的最新成本估算约为290亿美元。但赫斯特承认，这一估算仅基于弹药和被毁飞机的成本，未包括基地重建的建设费用。4月底有消息人士告诉CNN，实际总成本估计接近400亿至500亿美元。
一位熟悉预算问题的国防官员告诉CNN，美军通常在每年9月结束的联邦财年末期会遇到资金难题，往往需要请求国会调整不同支出类别间的资金用途，但由于成本上升和持续的军事行动，2026年的这类问题比预期提前了数月出现。
美军各军种面临的部分问题更多是资金担忧加剧的体现，而非全新问题。
上周出席参议院军事委员会听证会的空军参谋长肯尼思·威尔斯巴奇将军表示，伊朗冲突加剧了本已存在的战备困境。
拨款委员会议员本月早些时候在听证会上就额外拨款问题向国防部长皮特·赫格斯施压，多次敦促这位五角大楼负责人加快提交拨款申请的进度。
“我认为，我们需要偿还那些将被用于支付当前行动的‘行动与维护’账户资金，”众议院拨款委员会国防小组委员会主席、加州共和党众议员肯·卡尔弗特说道。
据哈里森称，这场持续冲突的“隐性成本”将在未来显现，因为装备磨损加剧将导致更多维护问题。他还建议，追加拨款也可极大帮助五角大楼补充已耗尽的防空和进攻性导弹库存。
戴维斯·温基的CNN报道由Outrider基金会与新闻资助合作伙伴（JFP）联合支持。CNN保留报道的完整编辑控制权。
CNN的娜塔莎·伯特兰和扎卡里·科恩为本报道撰稿。
Iran war spending drains US military budgets, triggering cancelled trainings, delayed maintenance
2026-05-27T09:00:07.668Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/27/politics/iran-war-spending-cancelled-trainings-delayed-maintenance
- The Pentagon is struggling to fund routine training and maintenance as operations against Iran drain military budgets.
- US military leaders told Congress that their 2026 budgets didn’t account for Operation Epic Fury costs.
- Although Trump administration officials have discussed needing additional funding to cover the cost of the Iran war, there are no indications that Congress is moving towards approving more money.
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The Pentagon is feeling the financial squeeze and is struggling in some cases to carry out routine training and maintenance amid its ongoing operations against Iran, with uniformed military leaders pressing Congress to support additional funding.
The Navy’s top officer, Adm. Daryl Caudle, told House Armed Services Committee lawmakers earlier this month that his 2026 budget “didn’t bake in [Operation] Epic Fury” and that the Navy faces impacts on “routine operations” as a result.
That includes having to limit training exercises, flight training hours and training for new recruits, he said.
“My record recruiting is going to be thwarted without additional funding to [move] those individuals from boot camp and to pay enlistment and reenlistment bonuses,” Caudle told lawmakers.
The Army’s III Armored Corps, a Texas-based headquarters that oversees roughly 70,000 troops and hundreds of tanks, saw a nearly $292 million cut to its training budget in late April, according to an internal document reviewed by CNN. ABC News was first to report on the cuts.
The service’s medical schoolhouse cancelled dozens of courses and eliminated centralized funding for others, according to an April 27 memo also reviewed by CNN.
The Pentagon declined to comment for this story.
The military is normally required to pull money from specific buckets for specific activities unless Congress grants permission to move money around. Training typically comes from the “Operations and Maintenance” account.
Defense budget expert Todd Harrison of the American Enterprise Institute think tank that the Operations and Maintenance account is used for everything from training and deployments to fuel, travel, equipment repair, and even to pay for some Pentagon civilian employees.
Harrison said that tracking real-time Pentagon budget expenditures from the outside is impossible, but “it’s completely plausible that they are having to make some tradeoffs and do things like cancel unessential travel or cancel training.”
Early in the Iran campaign, Trump administration officials discussed seeking supplemental funding for the military, with some putting the price tag at $200 billion. Administration officials have subsequently said that figure was too high, though they haven’t provided specifics for a request, and there are no signs that Congress is moving towards approving additional funding.
The Pentagon’s most recent estimate of the conflict’s cost was approximately $29 billion, acting Pentagon comptroller Jules “Jay” Hurst III told the House Appropriations Committee’s defense subpanel on May 12. But that estimate was based on the cost of munitions and destroyed aircraft and didn’t include construction costs for rebuilding bases, Hurst acknowledged. Sources told CNN in late April that the full estimate is closer to $40-50 billion.
A defense official familiar with the budget issues told CNN that the military typically encounters funding challenges toward the end of the federal fiscal year that ends in September often resulting in a need to ask Congress to move money between spending categories, but that 2026 has seen the issue bubble up months earlier than anticipated due to rising costs and the ongoing operations.
Some of the issues the military branches are facing are more a sign of intensifying funding concerns than completely new issues.
Air Force chief Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach, who testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee last week, said that the Iran conflict has exacerbated existing readiness troubles.
Appropriations lawmakers pressed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on the topic of extra funding during hearings earlier this month, repeatedly urging the Pentagon chief to speed up that process of submitting a request.
“We need to repay those O&M [operations and maintenance] accounts that are going to be used, I suspect, in order to pay for this ongoing operation,” said California GOP Rep. Ken Calvert, who chairs the House Appropriations Committee’s defense subpanel.
According to Harrison, the “hidden cost” of the ongoing conflict will manifest over time as increased wear and tear on equipment leads to increased maintenance problems. He suggested that supplemental funds may also greatly assist in replenishing the Pentagon’s depleted stockpile of both air defense and offensive missiles.
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CNN’s Natasha Bertrand and Zachary Cohen contributed to this report.