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$5.6 billion
“The Pentagon burned through $5.6 billion worth of munitions during the first two days of its military assault on Iran, a figure that underscores the deepening alarm among some on Capitol Hill over the speed at which U.S. forces have eaten into the scarce supply of America’s most advanced weaponry,” the Washington Post reports.
$5.00
Nate Silver: “According to the AAA, average retail gas prices in the U.S. are now $3.45 per gallon, up about 50 cents from a week ago. However, the problems are likely to worsen significantly as supply chains are disrupted. Traders at Polymarket anticipate that the most likely range for gas prices to land by the end of March is between $4.50 and $5.00. And although there’s a wide range of uncertainty, there’s a 41 percent chance they exceed $5.00 by the end of the month.”
$100
“U.S. oil futures have followed their biggest weekly rise ever by surging as much as 20% in Sunday evening trading, vaulting above $100 a barrel for the first time since war in Europe rattled energy markets in 2022,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
56%
G. Elliot Morris: “According to a simple average of new high-quality surveys, 38% of Americans approve and 49% disapprove of U.S. military action in Iran. … When ignoring ‘don’t know’ respondents, 56% disapprove.”
92,000
“The U.S. lost 92,000 jobs in February, a sign that the job market continues to struggle across a broad range of sectors,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The unemployment ticked slightly higher to 4.4%.”
72%
A new Fox News poll finds 72% of independents disapprove of President Trump’s job performance and 78% think he is focused on the wrong issues.
+47,000
Thousands of files relating to the Epstein case have been taken offline, according to an analysis by the Wall Street Journal. The Journal found that more than 47,000 files were missing from documents that had been posted to the Justice Department’s website, including documents that detailed one woman’s unverified allegations of sexual misconduct against President Donald Trump.
54% to 41%
A majority of voters disapproves of how President Trump is handling the situation in Iran and believes the U.S. should not have taken military action against the country, 54% to 41%, according to a new NBC News poll. Republican pollster Bill McInturff: “This is a lower level of support than in most of the major military action that we’ve seen.”
still 44% to 53%
Morning Consult: “Trump approval (44% to 53%) and his foreign policy approval (43% to 52%) are unchanged from pre-strike baselines. The strikes have not moved his numbers immediately.” The country is split: “41% of registered voters say strikes necessary vs. 42% who prefer diplomacy.”
42,695
A federal judge has found that the Internal Revenue Service violated federal law “approximately 42,695 times” when it shared confidential taxpayer addresses with immigration enforcement officials last summer, the Washington Post reports.
