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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCongress Will Soon Decide Whether to Approve Yet More $ for Iran War
Pentagon officials told lawmakers earlier this week that the first six days of the {Iran war alone} cost the US more than $11.3 billion, according to The New York Times.
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Most Republicans are likely to line up behind the administrations request, but Democrats are wary of devoting more money to an unpopular war effort that hasnt been approved by Congress.
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Most Republicans are likely to line up behind the administrations request, but Democrats are wary of devoting more money to an unpopular war effort that hasnt been approved by Congress.
Wary.
More at https://www.semafor.com/article/03/12/2026/debatable-iran-war-funding
Re- the Pentagon's struggles to figure out how to spend the money, the strain on the US economy, etc., see https://fortune.com/2026/02/23/us-debt-trump-plan-pentagon-budget-interest-costs-great-power-status/ .
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Congress Will Soon Decide Whether to Approve Yet More $ for Iran War (Original Post)
snot
9 hrs ago
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Deuxcents
(26,583 posts)1. Wary?! They can't even get the TSA funds to pay people working without a paycheck for a month now.
More money requests and no accountability for whats going on or how these billions are being spent. We are so messed up and the public trough is running on empty as we borrow 50$ billion a week for the last 5 months.
buzzycrumbhunger
(1,885 posts)2. What they need is a new logo...
Im sure this will help:

Resistance1
(150 posts)3. It would better
If trumps fucked up face, which is the equivalent of death, was placed in the middle instead
vanessa_ca
(898 posts)4. Wary? -eom