Lawmakers question delays in medical care, casualty figures and Pentagon’s handling of drone attack in Kuwait US politics live – latest updates The Trump administration is facing growing demands to explain why wounded US soldiers went more than a week without adequate hospital care after a March drone strike in Kuwait, just days into the US-Israel war on Iran . In a letter to the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth , congressional Democrats urged the Pentagon to answer their questions – which include why the Pentagon’s public casualty count for the war with Iran briefly changed – by 12 August. Continue reading...