Congress Can Halt the Iran War by Doing Nothing. It Should

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth wants $200 billion for the Trump administration’s illegal, ill-advised, undeclared war on Iran.

Well, maybe. “That number could move,” he says, to get “properly funded for what’s been done, for what we may have to do in the future, ensure that our ammunition is refilled, and not just refilled, but above and beyond.”

You won’t need two guesses to guess which direction “that number” will likely move in.

Will Whiskey Pete get his requested allowance bump? According to the Washington Post, unnamed “White House officials” think he’s aiming too high, and some members of Congress seem to agree.

The correct congressional response — if you think it will help, by all means pass the recommendation on to “your” “representatives”  — is a big fat goose-egg, for at least two reasons above and beyond the war being stupid and........

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