The Pentagon has requested the White House to approve an emergency funding request exceeding $20 billion for follow-up actions in the war against Iran. This amount far exceeds the direct operational costs of the recent U.S.-Israel joint air strikes, and will focus on urgently expanding key weapon production capacity to replenish precision-guided munitions rapidly consumed over the past three weeks while striking thousands of targets. Sources said the Department of Defense has submitted several different versions of funding proposals in the past two weeks, but the final size of the request that the White House will submit to Congress remains undetermined. This request is likely to spark a major political struggle in Congress. Some White House officials privately believe that the scale proposed by the Pentagon has little chance of passing in Congress. With the cost of the first week of the war already exceeding $11 billion, the government has quickly initiated preparations for additional funding to avoid the war undermining the U.S. military's readiness globally. However, Trump had made ending U.S. overseas adventurism a central campaign issue and long criticized the Biden administration for approving large funds for the Ukraine war. In comparison, Congress had approved about $188 billion in spending for the Russia-Ukraine war by last December. Now, if this U.S.-Iran war pushes for a larger funding bill, it will not only intensify opposition from Democrats but also test whether Republicans can find a way to cross the 60-vote threshold in the Senate.
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