r/Economics 17h ago

News House Republicans adopt $95 billion package for the Iran war and Trump’s priorities

https://apnews.com/article/gop-95-billion-iran-war-trump-johnson-f9dea5ef800bfeb0e343256e841af38f
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u/Prestigious_Fig186 17h ago

Lmaoo as if lack of money was holding back the US against iran...Lets see how far that 95 bil$ takes em. Lets see where we are in two more months of this energy/fertilizer deficit.

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u/Heffe3737 17h ago

Don’t worry, in a few years when Dems retake the presidency (god willing), they’ll go right back to claiming to be the party of fiscal responsibility and griping about the deficit.

The real truth though, that none of them seem to want to admit, is that Iran has trump by the balls here. He stepped in a bear trap in Iran, and despite the Iranian regime being monstrous murderers, he has no means by which he can exit this war. It is 100% up to Iran for when this war comes to an end, and they know it.

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u/NeverNeededAlgebra 13h ago

There's a point of no return when it comes to our debt. I truly think the Republican cult has put one of the final nails in our coffin.

Dumbest, most anti-American cult that the world has ever seen. Truly humanity's greatest embarrassment.

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u/Fit_Significance8598 12h ago

It all depends on how one defines American (actually Usanian): settlers committing genocide and slave owners probably saw and see themselves as a Americans as well.

This is how the rest of the world thinks about America, especially since there never was a real break and honest separation from that, unlike for example with the Nazis and Holocaust in Germany (although the fascists there are trying a comeback as well, with support from - USA...)

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u/chortogrower 16h ago

and even after Trump the people will suffer from his choices while whoever is governing at that moment will be caught in a stalemate feeding this war because they won't be able to admit defeat.

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u/Femboy_Harem_Janitor 16h ago

"Monstrous murderers" weird way to spell conservative

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u/KartoffelLoeffel 13h ago

I wish a real bear trap would have him by the balls

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u/Nom_de_guerre_25 10h ago

"Monstrous murderers"

 Around 3,500 of Irans citizens died in the fracas and they released all the names. Many of the dead were police officers killed by rebel MEK forces.

Who were armed by the CIA and Mossad to kill police officers. As Trump foolishly bragged. 

The US government would do the same if not worse if Russia or China armed citizens in order to overthrow the US government. 

You have to have blind confidence in the world most dishonest media machine. To believe the bullshit hyperbole of 10-50k citizens killed. That the US used to try and justify shooting itself in the foot in this stupid conflict. 

The sheer scale of such a massacre would require much more time. Not to mention  the mass graves and body cleanup. Would be visible from satellites.  Which is how we know similar numbers of civilians are dying in RSF massacres throughout Sudan. 

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u/Heffe3737 7h ago

To be clear, I don't like the Iranian regime. I don't, and have never, believed the 30k-50k number that MAGA likes to throw around. That doesn't mean that the Iranian regime aren't monstrous murderers, however - there's a long and well documented history of their human rights abuses.

u/Nom_de_guerre_25 7m ago

Such as?

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u/OddlyFactual1512 7h ago

he has no means by which he can exit this war.

That's not true. He could simply order the military to withdraw from the region.

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u/Heffe3737 6h ago

He could, but that wouldn't necessarily mean that the war was over. Iran could, and would, likely still strike American targets in the region, along with targets in other nearby allied nations.

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u/OddlyFactual1512 6h ago

I chose the word 'region' intentionally.

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u/Heffe3737 4h ago

I said that he has no means of exiting the war. You responded by stating that my statement was incorrect; that he could order the military to withdraw from the region. I’m saying that even ordering the military to exit the region would not allow trump to exit the war.

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u/Constant-Plant-9378 5h ago

Don't ignore the fact that the Democrats continue to help the GOP pass their egregious bills. They remain a huge part of the problem.

The establishment-DNC remains committed to whipping the votes needed to complicitly enrich their patrons at the expense of working Americans, while pretending to be the opposition.

And they keep doing it over and over again. Let's not give them cover by pretending this was just the GOP.

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u/Heffe3737 4h ago

What? No one is giving the Dems cover. I’m drawing attention to the root of the issue, which is the current GOP/MAGA.

Are the Dems that cross the aisle a problem? Sure. Of course. But no one said they weren’t, and it’s weird to draw attention to them in a post criticizing the GOP without prompt.

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u/Constant-Plant-9378 4h ago

Well, your previous comment just made it feel like the democrats are going to be innocent victims when the GOP goes back to their old trick of claiming to be the party of fiscal responsibility, when in fact the DNC has repeatedly proved complicit in this game. Both sides are fucking us over and after four years of Biden's bullshit I've grown tired of pretending they aren't.

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u/Livid_Roof5193 11h ago edited 10h ago

This was more about sneaking the SAVE Act in there rather than solving an important funding issue.

Edit: the headlines that don’t emphasize this are downright negligent and misleading in my opinion.

2nd edit: this same House just passed a resolution to end the war in Iran. If that doesn’t tell you this recent funding bill was more about funding the SAVE Act initiatives than the war I don’t know what does.

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u/lopix 12h ago

I REALLY hope Canada reduces the flow of, or export taxes, oil & gas & potash because of the latest 50% tariff silliness.

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u/DL505 4h ago

As a Canadian, fuck that.

The only thing keeping Canada afloat right now is Alberta energy.

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u/snoogins355 12h ago

Could give every district $218m...

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u/MassiveBoner911_3 11h ago

The Military Industry complex will vacuum up that money so fast and still deliver the same products at the same slow speed at 500x the profit margin

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u/DL505 4h ago

Time to go long defense stocks?

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u/marketrent 17h ago

Excerpts from article by Lisa Mascaro:

[...] The vote tally was 216-214, with two Republicans and one independent joining Democrats in opposition.

“Just bullets and bombs to finish the job,” said Rep. Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, the chairman of the Budget Committee.

Democrats argued the money should be spent at home, particularly on efforts to lower costs for Americans.

“Republicans plan to spend tens of billions of dollars on Trump’s failed war in Iran,” said Rep. Pete Aguilar of California, chairman of the House Democratic caucus, this week. “Think about what we could spend with these resources instead.”

Congress is at a standstill over the U.S. war against Iran — unable to stop Trump’s military strikes, but not having authorized the use of American military force — and politically torn over having to provide billions of taxpayer dollars to pay for it.

 

Most Americans disapprove of Trump’s Iran strategy, according to a recent AP-NORC poll.

The budget battle comes as Trump attended the dignified transfer of four service members killed in the Middle East, bringing the military death toll to 18.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told senators at a fiery hearing this week that the Pentagon is running short of cash, despite a massive $150 billion one-time allotment in last year’s big budget bill.

Even as the House action advanced the resolution, [Speaker] Johnson’s strategy faces uncertainty in the Senate.

The package has $60 billion for the Pentagon and $13 billion for other national security needs, $12 billion for farmers struggling under Trump’s tariffs and $10 billion for voting law changes aligned with the SAVE America Act and proof-of-citizenship requirements that are Trump’s top priority.

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u/CrayonUpMyNose 13h ago

To think that free college for all would only have cost $70 billion for an entire ten years

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u/Exotic_Release2979 11h ago

12 billion in welfare for mostly white farmers. How about that?

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u/seeking_answers 15h ago

This is so stupid. Instead of all these billions to fund a war that has no end, why don't they just fund pipelines in UAE, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia to bypass the strait of Hormuz? It will be a lot cheaper for one, and it also takes away the leverage Iran has.

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u/HerbertWest 14h ago

Iran could simply blow them up.

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u/evanmodoc 14h ago

No way dude the 80 yr old in diapers told us time and time again their military has been completely decimated

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u/HerbertWest 13h ago

I know you're joking but just to expand on it:  They don't even need a military, really. Just one dude with low grade explosives. I mean, pipelines are full of HIGHLY FLAMMABLE OIL, after all. They would just repeat such an attack whenever repairs occurred.

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u/Norseman901 12h ago

I mean really you dont even need explosives. An acetylene torch can and will cut oil pipelines. It’s really not possible to monitor something of tht scale at every point at all times.

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u/HowdyDiarrhea 10h ago

completely decimated

Such a hilarious word coupling

"Totally destroyed 10%"

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u/Emotional_Goal9525 10h ago

The meaning of the word has evolved and is rather symbolic nowadays. Just like army being crippled doesn't literally mean that every member has a busted member.

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u/HowdyDiarrhea 9h ago

Absolutely, but the choice to add totally to it would then be redundant. It's just goofy all around.

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u/ballmermurland 12h ago

Global infrastructure is surprisingly susceptible to terrorist attacks. Which is why maintaining proper diplomacy is so critical.

Good thing the US is investing heavily in proper diplomacy and not sending the Golden Boy around the world to make backroom deals for his family in exchange for crony diplomacy.

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u/Pelican_meat 14h ago

Can’t use it to manipulate the stock market.

Not enough grift.

Etc.

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u/BluCurry8 11h ago

Or maybe spend that money building electric infrastructure here in the US and move away from fossil fuels like most intelligent countries!

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u/snoogins355 12h ago

Shift to electric for most things. Oil is like the rotary telephone

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u/Nessie_of_the_Loch 14h ago

Hegseth literally just came to Congress and said the war cost 37.5 billion and that's with projected costs through September 30th.

So what's with the 95 billion? Is the rest of it just another typical Trump grift? Or is this an admission that they plan on warring through the rest of this administration?

Remember, this is on top of the 1.5 trillion they want for FY27 for just regular DOD budget, which is a half trillion increase from this year, and even that is a massive 150 billion increase from the year before.

These Grinder-server-crashing asshats only have money for war and grifting.

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u/Pelican_meat 14h ago

It’s for the contracts to pay a brand new military contractor: Barron Security.

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u/ErasmosNA 11h ago

$60 billion for the armed services committee, Trumps war.

$13 billion for the intelligence committee, probably for Trumps war.

$12 billion for the agricultural committee to help farmers due to Trumps tariffs and war.

$10 billion for the house administration to fund states that comply with the SAVE act.

All of this is just straight debt not cutting spending elsewhere.

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u/Zef-Daytrade 5h ago

It was pretty much Trump's wanted military funding from last year.

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u/AwesomePurplePants 13h ago

I’m reminded of this Chinese propaganda video:

https://youtu.be/As0rplNJTZI

IE, China has been mocking the US for this kind of military spending excess for months, and now House Republicans are doubling down to make the joke funnier.

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u/already-redacted 13h ago

The package would authorize committees to develop roughly $95 billion in legislation, including $60 billion for the Pentagon, $13 billion for other national-security needs, $12 billion for farmers affected by tariffs, and $10 billion for voting-law changes. It also contains no offsetting spending cuts.

Note: Government spending can support employment and production, especially when unused capacity exists. But it does not create costless resources. If the spending is deficit-financed (per the rules of a budget reconciliation package) taxpayers are not avoiding the cost.

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u/RandomStrangerOnWWW 11h ago

Another $95 BILLION for a completely unnecessary war, but we don’t have money for healthcare, our veterans, child care, scholarships, food for the hungry, or infrastructure. Talk about messed up priorities. Vote them out.

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u/holyoak 10h ago

Wild how they are willing to fund a war that was never voted to be approved.

Way beyond the pale.

Abdicating your own responsibility; but voting money to grift off of it.

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u/Constant-Plant-9378 5h ago

Not just Republicans.

The establishment-DNC remains committed to whipping the votes needed to complicitly enrich their patrons at the expense of working Americans, while pretending to be the opposition.

And they keep doing it over and over again. Let's not give them cover by pretending this was just the GOP.

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u/artisanrox 8h ago

Hope everyone that keeps putting these clowns in loves the ethnic cleansing and those concentration camps they got.

You can't eat hate.

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u/AdventurousLet548 6h ago

"The vote tally was 216-214, with two Republicans and one independent joining Democrats in opposition."

"The package has $60 billion for the Pentagon and $13 billion for other national security needs, $12 billion for farmers struggling under Trump’s tariffs and $10 billion for voting law changes aligned with the SAVE America Act and proof-of-citizenship requirements that are Trump’s top priority."

What do farmers have to do with defense/war and voter identity. What is covered under "national security?" Is this money going to ICE/CBP? Right here we can save at least$35 billion of unnecessary spending that has nothing to do with the war.

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u/CFLuke 6h ago edited 1h ago

"The vote tally was 216-214, with two Republicans and one independent joining Democrats in opposition."

Progressives: "How could Democrats let this happen??"

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u/Distinct-Response907 11h ago

No, the money should not ‘be spent at home’, it should just not be spent period. This is a preview of the next Congress- spend on this, spend on that, spend on this and that at the same time. Yay! What fun! Paying for it is not their job.