That wild $200 first Billion initial war request is a non starter with Congress, as is the $1.5 Trillion overall 2027 Trump spending budget request…..
Defense Sec Hegseth will have to do with less….
Congress pays the bills ….
Not him, or even Trump….
And next year with the expected Democratic House and maybe even Senate AFTER Novembers midterm’s with a lousy US Economy?
Realty IS setting in for Trump & Co….
The Trump administration is expected to significantly scale back its plan to seek additional funding for the war in Iran ahead of what is likely to be a contentious fight over the request in Congress, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the matter.
The total, which as of Tuesday had not been finalized, is likely to fall to between $80 billion and $100 billion, said two U.S. officials, speaking like others on the condition of anonymity to discuss the negotiations. That sum would be less than half of the more than $200 billion that the Pentagon initially proposed to the White House last month.
It was not immediately clear when the administration would send its proposal to lawmakers, who ultimately will decide how much additional funding, if any, to approve.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday evening that he had agreed to suspend U.S. attacks on Iran — pending Tehran’s immediate reopening of a vital shipping route for Middle Eastern oil — for two weeks while talks aimed at ending the conflict proceed. The Defense Department has spent tens of billions of dollars building up and sustaining its operations while burning through its finite supply of certain advanced weaponry….
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The reduced dollar figure is largely a result of the administration’s record-breaking annual defense budget request, released last week, which calls for $1.5 trillion in total defense spending next year, the officials said. A portion of the request, $350 billion, would be spun off into a third bill meant to pass through a party-line process in Congress. That one-time funding would go toward energizing the United States’ defense-industrial base and building critical munitions for the military.
The original Iran war proposal that sought more than $200 billion in supplemental funding was written before the Pentagon knew how large the annual budget request would be, said one of the two officials familiar with the administration’s plans. The earlier proposal included tens of billions of dollars for the U.S. defense industry, requested investments now contained in the overall budget, the person said….
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The Trump administration’s pursuit of such a substantial sum of money, spread across three separate bills, could prove difficult for Congress, especially ahead of the November midterm elections…
Update….
NOTUS: “President Donald Trump is preparing a $98 billion supplemental spending request tied to U.S. military operations in Iran, a sharply reduced figure from earlier Pentagon proposals.”
“Defense officials initially floated packages approaching $250 billion to cover the cost of deploying troops, ships, aircraft and weapons to the region, and to accelerate munitions production — a key Pentagon priority.”
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