Washington an Jefferson would have bitter arguments over the Barbary Wars. Washington paid the jizya tax to the Ottomans. Jefferson refused to pay. They could never come to agreement on that issue.
Yes, in the end Jefferson would complain how can it cost to much too stop the Islamic pirates when we're already paying about 10th the cost of the Louisiana purchase Per year?
Jefferson honestly thought Washington was losing his mind for paying the Ottomans.
Also, those pirates would work under a different Islamic flag(country) then the Ottomans when we paid the Jizya so it was a complete waste of money.
That may well be, but Washington well understood that at that time, with the country still heavily in debt (Hamilton had not yet laid the path to solvency) we could not risk getting entangled in another war.
It was simply the reality. That was a problem with no good solution at the time.
However, what I object to is Jefferson’s WEASELLY approach to this issue. Washington was tired, but he wasn’t losing his mind. What Jefferson did was scummy and spineless.