There is No Iran Deal, Trump Made it Up Yet He is Asking over $100. Billions from Congress
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Just to clear the air, there is no Iran -US deal on the war Trump started. Talk between Trump and His Talking head JD Vance were lies. In Switzerland Iran ignored JD vance and the Iranians refused to shake his hand. He had to turn around like a fool he is. The Straights remained closed and there is fired between the US Navy and drones and missiles for Iran. One ship was already hit, we have no news of injuries or damage.There will be others I hate to say.
Trump it seems wants the money to replenish US stock arms he wasted in Iran. The war is lost! It is That simple.
I think that finally his followers in congress have figure out Trump is lying about everything. Still we had 14 serviceman dead (as far as we know) and $100 billions wasted in killing innocent civilians and kids.
Yes he did killed the older leaders of Iran and made them martyrs but now he faced the younger crazier religious ones that hate the US. Here in the US we know first hand what religious zealots will do. as a matter of fact that's how we got Trump. As Iran recovers we should be prepared for acts of terror to come back to the US and it won't be migrants with corn cobs.
The White House has asked lawmakers to approve $87.6bn (£66.5bn), mostly for "urgent needs" connected with the US war on Iran, a day after Congress passed a resolution rebuking the military action.
The bulk of the funding - $67bn - is for the US Department of Defence, the White House said.
But the proposal faces an uphill battle in Congress. The Iran conflict is unpopular with voters ahead of the US midterm elections in November, though a ceasefire is currently in effect.
US President Donald Trump has also found himself at odds with some members of his Republican Party over the issue of Iran, and is alleged to have ended up in an angry exchange with one senator on Wednesday.
That senator, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, was one of a handful of Republicans who defied the president on Tuesday by voting to pass a measure demanding that he halt the war or seek congressional approval before continuing military action.
Cassidy fell back in line after his alleged sparring with the president, and after receiving assurances from members of Trump's administration. He and others went on to vote down another similar measure in the Senate late on Wednesday.
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The White House Office of Management and Budget sent the formal request for the funds on Wednesday in a letter to House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson.
"Most of this request will address urgent needs related to Operation Epic Fury (OEF)," says the letter, referring to the Iran war.
The request includes $21bn for munitions, $17.3bn for operational costs and $12.1bn for classified programmes. It also asks for about $300m to bolster security at US embassies and diplomatic outposts in the Middle East and South Asia after some of them came under attack earlier in the war.
The other requested money would be for unrelated measures, including $11bn for US farmers and $1.4bn to tackle the Ebola outbreak in Central Africa.
Washington and Tehran are currently observing a ceasefire in the war, but the White House budget office letter notes that the Pentagon needs to "rebuild stocks" after its military strikes.
A peace plan was last week agreed between Trump and Iran, but dissident voices within the Republican Party have voiced scepticism about it.
The meeting between the president and senators on Wednesday was said to have been tense after Trump abruptly called off a signing ceremony for a housing bill that had bipartisan support.
At the lunch on Capitol Hill, Trump went on to complain about the measure that was passed the previous evening, when the Republican-controlled Senate narrowly voted to call for a restriction on his war powers.
Despite being largely symbolic, the measure was the first resolution of its kind to clear Congress that demanded a president to end a military action.
Early on Wednesday, Trump described it as "poorly timed and meaningless". On social media, he branded the four Republican senators who sided with opposition Democrats as "losers". And in a meeting with Nato chief Mark Rutte, Trump said the group "want to lose the war because they're stupid."
Later, after the closed-door lunch, Cassidy gave journalists an account of what he alleged had been a shouting match with the president: "I stood and said, 'You have not told the American people what's going on.'"
Cassidy went on to say: "This was supposed to last four weeks, it's lasted four months. Our original objectives have not been achieved."
For his part, Trump told reporters: "I think we had a really great meeting."
But by the end of Wednesday, Cassidy's concerns appeared to have been assuaged, writing on X that he had received a "thorough briefing" from Vice-President JD Vance and Steve Witkoff, Trump's special envoy.
Later that day, the senator changed his vote to help defeat another war powers resolution in the Senate - a move that was welcomed by Trump.
Last month, the Pentagon's chief financial officer Jules Hurst told a congressional panel the war had cost about $29bn so far.
But defence analysts and lawmakers say this estimate does not reflect the full scale of the conflict's financial damage.
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