<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The Pentagon is reportedly considering adding extra costs and conditions to the AUKUS deal, including demanding Australia's nuclear submarines support the US in a conflict with China.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The US Department of Defence </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/aukus-pact-pentagon-reviewing-trilateral-deal-nuclear-submarines/b9330a2c-7857-4256-a825-294418b7e36c" rel="" target="_blank" title="announced a review of the trilateral agreement"><span>announced a review of the trilateral agreement</span></a><span> in June.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"The department is reviewing AUKUS as part of ensuring that this initiative of the previous administration is aligned with the President's America First agenda," a US defence official confirmed to 9News at the time.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/hannah-mcguire-death-trial-jury-to-visit-site-body-was-found/dcd70d8a-9fb2-45a6-9c35-41e41133253b" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Jury to visit site where woman's body was found</span></strong></a><strong><span></span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Now, </span><a href="https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/if-we-go-to-war-submarines-come-too-how-us-could-demand-aukus-changes-20250706-p5mcu4.html" rel="" target="_blank" title="The Age has reported"><em><span>The Age</span></em><span> has reported</span></a><span> that sources familiar with the review claim Australia could be asked to pay more for nuclear-powered submarines from the US.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The price tag, which Australia has already made its first payment on, is currently about $4.7 billion.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span></span><em><span>The Age</span></em><span> reported another potential condition of a revised deal would be that the submarines be deployed to support the US in a conflict with China over Taiwan.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/aukus-us-review-australia-could-be-asked-to-pay-more-reports/a4866bdd-2c01-40c6-b966-c8baeefe1567" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/donald-trump-updates-he-promised-200-deals-by-now-hes-got-three-one-more-close/9d42c830-a5e5-414f-ba90-76358362afb4" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Trump promised 200 deals by now. He's got three</span></strong></a><strong><span></span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>AUKUS has maintained broad bipartisan support in the US since it was brokered by President Joe Biden, Prime Minister Scott Morrison, and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The review itself was not a whole-of-government initiative, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio issuing a statement saying he was unaware of it at the time.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Defence Minister Richard Marles also previously downplayed the potential outcomes of the review, pointing out that Keir Starmer's government in the UK had done the same thing before roundly re-endorsing AUKUS.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/trump-comes-to-bondis-defense-amid-uproar-from-his-base-over-jeffrey-epstein-files-flop/1074a93d-5e81-4553-a00b-92bc316e6737" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Trump hits back at journalists as he's quizzed about Jeffrey Epstein</span></strong></a><strong><span></span></strong></div></div><div class="styles__Wrapper-sc-2o34ro-0 cmwkBV"><div class="styles__Column-sc-2o34ro-3 jJDKrX"><a href="/content/2020/08/25/15/53/military-spending-by-country-top-10-nations-with-highest-military-expenditures"><img alt="" sizes="(min-width: 1024px) 636px, (min-width: 768px) 396px, 100vw" src="https://imageresizer.static9.net.au/aiRYsMNfAdoy3vU__5Eqz7jmAyM=/396x223/https%3A%2F%2Fprod.static9.net.au%2Ffs%2F647292d6-33d9-45c7-9c33-a3ea1cc6b769" srcset="https://imageresizer.static9.net.au/aiRYsMNfAdoy3vU__5Eqz7jmAyM=/396x223/https%3A%2F%2Fprod.static9.net.au%2Ffs%2F647292d6-33d9-45c7-9c33-a3ea1cc6b769 396w, https://imageresizer.static9.net.au/kvS4csOuunyThiMXUT-XOfbjVC8=/636x358/https%3A%2F%2Fprod.static9.net.au%2Ffs%2F647292d6-33d9-45c7-9c33-a3ea1cc6b769 636w"/></a></div><div class="styles__Column-sc-2o34ro-3 jJDKrX"><div class="styles__Headline-sc-2o34ro-4 hpbOlz">The staggering sums countries spend on defending themselves</div><div class="styles__Button-sc-2o34ro-1 eBjlmW"><a class="styles__ButtonLink-sc-2o34ro-2 hqpklJ" href="/content/2020/08/25/15/53/military-spending-by-country-top-10-nations-with-highest-military-expenditures">View Gallery</a></div></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><em><span>The Age</span></em><span> reported that the main driver of changes to AUKUS is US Undersecretary of Defence Elbridge Colby, who had previously opposed the sale of nuclear submarines to Australia.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>But the US government has major fault lines on foreign policy, as witnessed when President Donald Trump directed the US military to attack nuclear sites in Iran recently.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Trump's own mercurial approach to foreign policy is also muddying the waters on how the review will be received in the White House.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></em></strong></a><strong><em><span>: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. 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