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House GOP plots to strip social safety net funds to pay for Trump's Iran war: report
House GOP plots to strip social safety net funds to pay for Trump's Iran war: report - Rawstory via MSNHouse Budget Chair Jodey Arrington (R-TX) is eyeing using funds from state and local social programs to pay for Donald Trump's war in Iran.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently acknowledged that the Pentagon was developing a plan to ask Congress for an additional $200 billion, adding that “that number could move.”
"Arrington, an RSC member, will oversee advancing the instructions to set up another reconciliation package," Politico's Meredith Lee Hill reported. "He told us yesterday he wants defense money added to a reconciliation bill and paid for with spending cuts across state and social programs."
"He also wants to try again to add cost-sharing reductions for Obamacare," she added.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently acknowledged that the Pentagon was developing a plan to ask Congress for an additional $200 billion, adding that “that number could move.”
"Arrington, an RSC member, will oversee advancing the instructions to set up another reconciliation package," Politico's Meredith Lee Hill reported. "He told us yesterday he wants defense money added to a reconciliation bill and paid for with spending cuts across state and social programs."
"He also wants to try again to add cost-sharing reductions for Obamacare," she added.
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