Posted on 03/19/2026 2:30:51 PM PDT by Cronos
The Pentagon has asked for $200 billion in funding for the war in Iran...
The request has been sent to the White House, the military official said, which will review it before any request for funds is formally submitted to Congress. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the proposal. The request was reported earlier by The Washington Post.
“Obviously, it takes money to kill bad guys,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said when asked about the request during a news conference on Thursday, adding: “As far as the $200 billion, I think that number could move.”
On Capitol Hill, the sum — nearly a quarter of the country’s entire annual defense budget — is already raising eyebrows among some moderate Republicans who would be key to approving the funds.
“It’s considerably higher than I would have guessed, but I don’t know how it’s broken down,” Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine and the head of the chamber’s Appropriations Committee, told reporters Wednesday evening. The White House had not passed along any request to Congress, she said.
Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska and a key swing vote, said that the Trump administration would have to make a more concerted effort to engage Congress on the war before such a request could be approved.
“You just can’t come up here with an invoice and say, you know, ‘pay this’ and expect to have great cooperation going forward,” she told reporters on Wednesday.
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“I’m sure it’s not a random number, so we’ll look at that,” Mr. Johnson told reporters. “But obviously, it’s a dangerous time in the world, and we have to adequately fund defense.”
“The operations that are being undertaken now in Iran cost money,” Mr. Thune told reporters. “And we have to recognize that.”
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The problem is that the democRATs want Iran to win.
Supplemental Appropriation for ammunition to cover expenditures.
Democrats apparently want the US to loose.
The Federal Budget is about 8 trillion dollars a year which works out to roughly 20 billion dollars a day.
At least we can see what we're getting for our money with the war. The rest of the budget, not so much.
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