US Treasury Secretary Scott Besant said on Sunday that the United States has “a lot of money” for a war against Iran, stressing that President Donald Trump is “putting all options on the table” amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.Speaking to NBC News, Besant defended the administration’s actions, saying that Trump acted within his legal authority. He said, “President Trump was within his rights under the War Powers Act to initiate this action, and in fact we now have a lot of money to finance this war. What we are doing is supplementing.”“President Trump has built up the Army as he did in his first term, as he’s doing now in his second term, and he wants to make sure the Army remains well supplied going forward,” he said.Earlier, Trump had hinted that his administration might seek about $200 billion in additional Pentagon funding amid the war, calling it a “small price to pay” for maintaining U.S. military readiness. Speaking from the Oval Office, he said the funds would help ensure military superiority and denied any reduction in weapons.Trump had said, “We’re asking for a number of reasons, even beyond what we’re talking about about Iran…particularly munitions – at a high level, we have a lot of it, but we’re preserving it.”US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth also confirmed that the Pentagon plans to request additional funding from Congress to support ongoing operations and replenish stockpiles. “As far as the US$200 billion, I think that number can obviously go up. It takes money to kill bad guys,” Hegseth said, referring to the operation against Tehran under “Operation Epic Fury.”Besant insisted that the administration would maintain strategic ambiguity. “What we’re going to do is he’s not going to leave it in. As President Trump always does, he’s leaving all options on the table,” he said.The comments come amid an escalating conflict following joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran that began on February 28, prompting Tehran to retaliate against Israeli and US-linked targets across the region, disrupting key shipping routes and impacting global energy markets.