The US Has Already Spent More on the Iran War Than a Decade of National Parks

Operation Epic Fury has burned through more in a few days than Congress spends on every national park in a year. And the meter’s still running.

The entire National Park Service runs on $2.88 billion a year. That’s the FY2026 operations budget for every ranger, every campground, every visitor center, every mile of trail across 433 park units and 85 million acres of America’s most treasured lands.

Operation Epic Fury is burning through nearly a billion a day.

Three days of this war costs more than a full year of every national park in the country.

Let that sit for a second. Because this is the same government that spent the last year telling Americans we need to tighten our belts.