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The administration of United States President Donald Trump has asked Congress to approve an additional $87.6bn in spending for purposes including the US-Israel war on Iran.
On Wednesday, the Office of Management and Budget, which is part of the executive branch, passed the bill, with director Russell Vought urging the House of Representatives to take it up.
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“I urge Congress to act on these important requests as soon as possible,” Vought wrote to House Speaker Mike Johnson.
Most of the money he requested – about $67bn – was allocated to the Department of Defense to meet war-related needs, including “funding for military support and preparedness” and “funding for stockpile reconstruction”.
The request is more humble than $200bn bailout request The Department of Defense was created earlier in the year.
But it is unclear whether there is the political will to pass any major bills with so little time left before the mid-November election.
The spending request also comes a day after Congress voted to pass a resolution calling on Trump to halt US military operations against Iran, or require congressional approval.
The vote saw four Senate Republicans — Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Rand Paul of Kentucky — cross party lines to vote with Democrats. Two others did not vote for the resolution.
The split in the Republican Party is seen as a reflection of the deep divide over the war on Iran. Polls show that the war is unpopular among Americans.
Earlier this week, for example, the research firm Ipsos and the news agency Reuters released a poll that found that only 24 percent of respondents believed the war was necessary.
The divisive nature of the battle was also on display in Congress on Wednesday, when Trump appeared at a closed-door event for Senate Republicans.
After Trump attacked Republicans who helped end the war, Cassidy reportedly met with the president and defended his vote.
“I stood up and said, ‘You haven’t told the American people what’s going on,'” Cassidy told reporters after the meeting. This should last four weeks. It’s been four months. Our original goals were not met.
He promised to continue to vote on military power resolutions until Congress receives a full summary of the US war effort.
Democrats, meanwhile, have said they will oppose the White House’s funding request.
Senator Patty Murray of Washington said the proposal was “an attempt to get billions of dollars of extra money for non-Pentagon related things that should be properly considered through annual appropriations”.
“I will thoroughly review this entire request and make sure we take care of our employees, but I will not waste any more billions on this terrible fight,” he added.
But the funding request had its supporters. Representative Tom Cole of Oklahoma and Representative Ken Calvert of California viewed the increased military spending as appropriate spending.
“President Trump’s request reflects the reality that our defense capabilities must be maintained, not merely demonstrated,” they wrote in a joint statement.
Of the money allocated to the Department of Defense, $21bn was earmarked for the military. Another $17.3bn was allocated to operating expenses, and $21.1bn to special programmes.
This will come in addition to the $150bn Congress approved for the military last year in Trump’s signature tax and spending package, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA).
But Wednesday’s spending bill includes additional spending and measures that critics say could help boost its passage.
The package would include $11.1bn in farm aid, $1.1bn of which would go to Florida farmers who lost their lives in the hurricane. A further $1.4bn will be allocated to efforts to combat the Ebola epidemic in Africa.
Some money was also set aside to be used for infrastructure and public works.
Under the proposal, $1bn will go to the renovation of the famous Penn Station in New York, and another $500m will be given to the renovation and construction of Washington, DC, where Trump has made several projects, including the demolition of the White House’s East Wing.
