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Exclusive: The Pentagon asked the White House to approve a more than $200 billion request to Congress to fund the war in Iran, according to an administration official, a new ask that will likely run into resistance from lawmakers opposed to the conflict.

wapo.stPentagon seeks more than $200 billion in budget request for Iran warThat figure would far surpass the costs of the U.S. airstrike campaign to date and aims to boost production of critical weapons depleted in the conflict, people familiar with the matter said.

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💥💥Hell no....HELL NO....!!!💥💥 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕 They should have thought about this BEFORE following orders from a illegitimate felon to start the Epstein War. F-them! They are already OVER budget each year..... they need 50 to 70% cuts and reduction from being blood sucking war machine!!

No no no no do not send anymore money for this war. trump got us in without $200 billion dollars he can figure out how to take us out of this war without $200 billion. Do not give this idiot any money.

Counteroffer: Put $200 billion in funding back into TANF, SNAP, Medicaid, and Affordable Health Care expansion coverage, and then just rescind and burn H.R.1. Let's save lives instead of taking them.

STOP, JUST STOP! can't someone lock this guy in a closet? Where is all this money coming from?? Oh wait, he probably doesn't expect to pay it back. Sort of like maxing out a credit card. Pretty soon we'll be all out of weapons and money. Then Canada and Mexico will just divide us up and no more US.

I actually teared up reading this (and I don't tear up easily). $200 billion. For a war no American wanted. How much could we do with that money for those in our own country who are suffering? Health care? Homelessness? Hunger? It is disgraceful that our tax money funds this madness.

Isn't this where the Congress can say "NO" to the optional war? Better now than wait for another Vietnam... 😒 Still, #GrandpaTrump will inevitably say "I was winning, I would have won BIG, but they did not support me." In history his name will be Loser.

So they didn't have a plan for the war, and they didn't have the money for the war... Doesn't that sound like your first year college student who uses their loans to go south for a bender with no idea where they are staying, how they will pay for things and how they will get back?

Scott Santens@scottsantens.com

$200 billion a year would enable a universal basic income of about $500/mo. That would essentially abolish severe poverty in America. Poverty would drop by about a third, and because the downstream costs of poverty are about $3 TRILLION a year, that would be a return on investment of $800B a year.

Maxima@maxima-infinity.bsky.social

. WW3 I have it on good authority that Cuba is NOT about to attack Israel. and has no Weapons of Mass Destruction except Majetos. Cuba is willing to talk with Trump BEFORE he starts sinking ships. Can someone please get these facts in front of Trump. US must beware; Trunp is no JFK. #MAGA .

We are going to spend the money that would pay for universal healthcare in America to bomb a country that provides universal healthcare to its people? We are the dumbest fucks alive.

So explain this to me. You say we have already won this war (illegal war) and it will be over in a week or two. Why do you need $200 billion more?

Why? They already received their funding. You don't get to receive additional funding after you were already funded. Learn to live within your means like the population does.

America, exactly where is your red line with Trump and Republicans? The Epstein files weren't enough? What does Trump have to do for you to get off of your asses and demand the military arrest the Trump international crime family? Pretty damn soon, you won't be able to do anything about it. Well?

Clearly Trump doesn’t think his war of choice against Iran is anywhere near over despite what he keeps telling America. How about Congress use that $200 billion to subsidize health insurance premiums & help American citizens pay the increased cost of living created by Trump’s war & tariffs?

Cuz Millions of dollars of king crab, lobster tails, ribeye steaks, donuts, fruit stands & ice cream machines; Dora the Explorer, Paw Patrol, & Frozen stickers; & unnecessary furniture, etc is not going to buy itself!

I thought the national debt was over $38 trillion. Is it any wonder the White House sends out war clips to the song “money for nothing” All this winning is leaving with USA kids with a national debt which is irresponsible and criminal.

There has been a series of high‑profile and controversial incidents involving federal immigration enforcement agents (ICE/BP) in Minnesota recently, with multiple fatal shootings and protests over how those operations were conducted and investigated. These events are fueling a lot of debate about.

ANOTHER $200 billion dollars to fight in the Middle East? Fighting a war with no visible end and no known plan ?? Does this administration really think we are ALL that dumb? Or do they just think the GOP is dumb enough and afraid of grump enough to give him money for an ILLEGAL WAR? WTF?

`Why should we pay taxes to the federal government for them to throw it away like the current administration is doing? Beats the hell out of me. It doesn't seem reasonable to give them money they manage so poorly. None of it comes back to the people anymore.

Approve it if and only if it is 100% paid for - along with a rider that then also covers funding the ACA tax credits and provides enough funding to extend the solvency date of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid - with funds coming from taxing billionaires.

Politically getting all of these priorities in one bill is extremely difficult; different factions may oppose tax increases or spending extensions. Mechanically: Congress would need to calculate precise revenue projections to ensure full funding for all programs simultaneously.

Imagine you are a teenager with no drivers license. You steal your parents car and crash it (intentionally) into the car of another kid you proclaim to hate, totaling both cars. While the cars are still burning and people are bleeding and screaming, you tell your folks, “I need a car, a faster one.”

The $200B is a backroom deal to pay off the Middle East countries that are getting bombed by Iran. trump/Kushner are working back room deals to keep favor with the Middle East, once again trump does not understand the pandora box he unleashed starting this war....Taxpayers screwed again..

Are you fucking kidding me! Those pieces of crap want 200 billion dollars to fund their unnecessary war! We have people in this country struggling to make ends meet, struggling to pay medical bills, gas prices doubled. Bullshit. Democrats, if you cave to this you all need to go. Grow a pair!

Inflation and gas prices are already straining households; large unfunded war spending can worsen deficit concerns, potentially affecting the economy long-term. Advocates for stricter funding conditions (like taxing the ultra-wealthy to pay for it) are trying to force a conversation about who bears.

🤔 more money, when he has never present his budget to congress for approval, failed what 5 audits so far, dragged the US and our troops into an illegal war 😳 call daddy whore bucks do not give this tool another penny of OUR money

they DO NOT CARE about affordability for the average american. they truly believe they are biblically anointed to pursue their agenda for their own people (christian nationalists and their cronies). and that agenda is the domination of the judeo-christian establishment over the world.

It's obvious by now that the Christian Nationalist extremists are actively demolishing our democratic republic so they use the failure as an excuse to install their Christian theocracy. People are always willing to accept tyrannical government when they are afraid of their current circumstance.

You don't go to White House for funding, Hesgeth. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. — James Madison

Um... The last number that I read was something like $12 billion for about a week or so. So... call it 8-16 weeks more? How much rubble do they need to pulverize?