Posted on 03/11/2026 3:58:19 PM PDT by Libloather
WASHINGTON — The White House is privately pushing congressional lawmakers to keep their cool as the war in Iran wraps up its 12th day, arguing it is critical to root out threats from the Islamic Republic against the US and its allies.
The message from the White House to jittery Republicans is that the “short-term spike” at the pump is needed for a “long-term gain,” a White House official told The Post.
While Republicans in Congress are largely cheering on President Trump’s military campaign in Iran — at least publicly — many of them are anticipating fallout and potential midterm headaches from it. Some are even gently nudging him to wrap it up.
“This is an overriding success. Our military is astounding the world,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) told Fox News’ “Jesse Watters Primetime” Tuesday. “It’s been astounding, historic.”
“Now it’s time to declare victory.”
Lawmakers had been given an estimate earlier this week that the first two days of Operation Epic Fury cost about $5.6 billion. But 12 days in, the total price tag thus far appears unknown to lawmakers.
“I think probably tens [of billions of dollars], but I don’t know,” House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-Okla.) told The Post.
“Whether you agree or disagree with Iran, look, we are perilously low on some of the ammunition stocks that we would need if, God forbid, and nobody wants this, we got into a confrontation in the Western Pacific with the Chinese,” he added at another point during a wide-ranging interview.
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“But 12 days in, the total price tag thus far appears unknown to lawmakers.
“I think probably tens [of billions of dollars], but I don’t know,” House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-Okla.) told The Post.”
So how much continuing fraud is the Fed. Govt. funding in Minnisomaliaopolis?
Cost whiners don’t get it.
I wouldn’t hold my breath. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that the American people will drop their support if it means having any hardships. Gas prices? Suddenly they’re against the war.
Very little ability to tolerate inconvenience.
Gird your loins!
Could put some ice on that.
Former President Clinton would concur with that assessment.
“Solved all Mah’ problems!”
We could’ve built a bathroom for a BART station for that kind of money . . .
Two weeks to stop the spread!
We would have lost WW2 with this mentality.
Yup. We would have hit Omaha Beach, and 15 minutes later the reports would come in — “We’ve lost hundreds of men! We need to pull out! We’ve lost this war!”
One of the things that our government was very worried about was the people had enough of fighting WWII after Nazi Germany surrendered. One of main reasons that we used nuclear weapons on Japan was that we had to get them to surrendered before our people just gave up.
My war was every bit as necessary but our people crapped out on us because of all the Leftist propaganda and because they had other things to do.
While we’re over there can we take back Constantinople and northern Cyprus?
Yes, it’s time to stop playing “whack a mole” with radical Islam.
As with Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan, they must be utterly defeated and either reformed, replaced or eradicated.
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