Congress still can't get straight answers on the Iran war — six months in, 18 American servicemembers dead, and the Pentagon is keeping the people's representatives in the dark about where this conflict is headed and what it will cost.

Representative Mike Turner, an Ohio Republican who sits on the House Armed Services Committee and formerly chaired the Intelligence Committee, said Sunday that lawmakers across both chambers remain unsatisfied with what the administration is sharing. "The administration could be sharing more with Congress," Turner told CBS News' Face the Nation. "I don't think anybody is satisfied with the level of information we're receiving."

This isn't a new complaint. Turner raised the same concern at a March committee hearing, pressing Pentagon officials on decision-making. He reiterated it in May at a security conference. Now, heading into the sixth month of a conflict launched February 28, nothing has changed. Members of the House Armed Services Committee from both parties have complained about the level of detail they're receiving on U.S. goals and operations, Newsweek reported.

Meanwhile, the White House is reportedly fracturing from the inside. NBC News, citing a U.S. official and several people familiar with internal discussions, reported that President Trump erupted during a recent national security meeting, swearing over the lack of progress. One official told NBC that American forces had achieved "a series of tactical victories" but were now "facing a strategic defeat without clear policy guidance or a decision about where this is going."

International Business Times reported that the conflict has claimed 18 American lives and exposed widening disagreements among senior officials over what would constitute success. Competing priorities inside the administration — preventing Iran's nuclear program, protecting Strait of Hormuz shipping, degrading missile and drone capabilities, deterring attacks on U.S. forces — have no clearly defined strategic objective tying them together.

A Trump ally told NBC the president "did not intend this to be a long, drawn-out war" — a promise that looks increasingly hollow as the months stack up without an exit strategy.

Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina said last month that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had "lost my confidence" over Pentagon leadership and management as questions mounted about the war's duration and costs. Trump defended Hegseth, saying he'd done "a great job."

Newsweek framed the story around Turner's continued support for Trump's broader Iran strategy while calling for more transparency — a split that matters, because it shows this isn't partisan carping. Turner backs the objectives. He just doesn't think Congress should be flying blind. International Business Times led with the internal White House dysfunction and the mounting human cost — 18 dead Americans that the Pentagon apparently doesn't think warrant full briefings for the branch of government constitutionally charged with declaring war and funding it.

The Constitution gave Congress war powers for a reason. Right now, the executive branch is running an overseas conflict with no defined endgame, no exit strategy, and no appetite for letting the American people's representatives see the full picture. That's not oversight. That's a bypass.

The open question: How many more funerals and how many more months before Congress forces the issue?