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Sat · 15 Aug 2026

Republicans Advance Spending Bill Including Billions for Iran War

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Republicans Advance Spending Bill Including Billions for Iran War

🏛️ CONGRESS — GOP war funding bill advances while the bombs are still falling. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Locking Iran war costs into a spending bill removes Congress as a brake on campaign duration. No sunset, no war powers vote: appropriations become the authorization. Tehran, Doha, and Islamabad now read Washington's posture as institutionalized — not event-driven. The off-ramp question just moved from the Situation Room to the budget ledger.