WASHINGTON—Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have raised new concerns that U.S. forces have drained weapons stockpiles amid an inflection point in the fighting with Iran.
Since the start of the Iran conflict in late February, President Donald Trump has repeatedly contended with questions about the availability of precision long-range weapons used to strike targets in Iran, and advanced interceptors used to blunt Iranian missile and drone barrages across the Middle East.
“We have far more munitions than anyone in the world, and far more than we need,” Trump told The Wall Street Journal this week, in response to reporting that U.S. forces had paused strikes on Iran to assess weapons stocks. …