Despite expressing frustration over Donald Trump’s war with Iran, some Democrats are still considering voting to boost military spending by billions of dollars.
At least four Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee haven’t ruled out additional funding for the Department of Defense: Ranking member Jack Reed of Rhode Island, Gary Peters of Michigan, Tim Kaine of Virginia, and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan.
“I need to know the goals and the plan...I don’t rule anything out,” Slotkin told Politico. “I mean, we’re in it.”
“We have to look at what they need,” Reed said. “Some of it might be to fill in critical issues and other theaters of war they’ve taken things from.”
Defense and intelligence officials told Congress this week that the Pentagon may soon ask for emergency funding, but didn’t say when or how much they would need, although Politico reports that the White House is considering asking for $50 billion. But while some Democrats are open to new military funding, seven Democrats are needed to overcome a filibuster—and many others are not only skeptical of additional funding, but outright hostile to the idea.
“Good luck. What Democrat is going to vote to fund an illegal war? I don’t think — with the exception of one Democrat — there will be any votes for it,” said Senator Chris Murphy Wednesday, likely referring to Senator John Fetterman, who was the lone Democrat to vote against a War Powers resolution Tuesday requiring Trump to seek Congress’s approval for further military action in Iran.
Democrats in the House also scoffed at the idea of funding the war in Iran further.
Representative Pete Aguilar of California said he has “a duty and a responsibility to help protect this country,” but is “incredibly skeptical” of giving emergency military funding for Trump. “It’s going to be pretty hard to move me off of a ‘no,’” he said.
“I mean, you lie to us, don’t consult us and then expect us to send more taxpayer money to a war that we shouldn’t have started with no plan and no answers,” said Representative Pat Ryan of New York, a military veteran. He called the $50 billion figure “outrageous.”
Several Senate Democrats left a Tuesday classified briefing on Iran aghast at the lack of planning by the administration, openly accusing the White House of lying and worrying about whether ground troops would be deployed. To fund the war would require their concerns to be addressed, but even then, it won’t change the fact that Trump started a dangerous war on a whim.
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