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No price tag on Trump's plan to claim the Strait of Hormuz

(The Center Square) — President Donald Trump says he'll declare the Strait of Hormuz a U.S. territory, but no federal agency has said what controlling the key oil chokepoint would cost taxpayers.

'After we finish defeating Iran, which is being very badly defeated, pretty soon I'll be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States,' Trump said Friday at an event on Long Island.

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