Congress Seeks to Cut Off Taxpayer Funding For Iran Deal

Free Beacon ^ | March 20, 2015 | Adam Kredo

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Move to eliminate all U.S. funding for diplomacy with Iran

Congressional leaders have begun pressuring their colleagues to cut off all U.S. funding for the ongoing talks with Iran over its contested nuclear program as the Obama administration rushes to hash out the details of a deal in the coming months, according to multiple sources and a letter that will be sent next week to appropriators in the House of Representatives.

With the deadline approaching, congressional Republicans have been exasperated by the Obama administration’s efforts to prevent them from having any oversight over the deal.

[Cheerio]

Reps. Peter Roskam (R., Ill.) and Lee Zeldin (R., N.Y.) are now petitioning their colleagues on the House Appropriations Committee to prohibit all taxpayer funding for the talks, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.

We are supposed to continually fall for this GOP Kabuki theater?? Boner and McConnell have already taken "Power of the purse" off the table - Obozo and his media will automaticall blame the GOP for "shutting down the Govt in the middle of our poor picked on first ever white and black young pres was trying to complete a deal with Iran". /s

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

How come nobody is talking about diplomacy with Iran itself? Why aren't Republicans holding press conferences and stating the obvious?

[depressed in 06]

ObOzO has taken war off the table, so, why can’t the Republicans shut down the government? There are 50 states to pick up the slack.

[onedoug]

More Congressional smoke and mirrors.

[4rcane]

obama will just threaten to shut down the government and gop will back down as always. GOP have no cards to play

[oldbrowser]

Republicans have been exasperated by the Obama administration’s efforts to prevent them from having any oversight over the deal.

The constitution gives congress the power of advise and consent. Trying to pass a law to stop funding in advance would only confuse the issue. IMHO.

[grania]

They can cut off the funding for the Iran deal but not cut off the funding that pays for the invasion of the US?

USA FIRST !!!

[molson209]

The Deal is already done they’re just playing with everyone and waiting for the right time ,is there a Big Iranian Holiday coming up

[cotton1706]

And how exactly do they do that when they funded everything till September 30th. Idiots! The most they can do is remove funding from the FY2016 budget, and by that time, a deal may have been already struck.

[Steve0113]

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