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The longer U.S. President Donald Trump’s war against Iran continues, the likelier it becomes that he’ll have to turn to Congress for extra military funding. And if that happens, he is expected to encounter a firm wall of Democratic opposition.

“There is a very solid group of Democrats whose position is going to be that the administration has gotten $1 trillion for the Pentagon and more than enough extra funds in the Big Beautiful Bill and has yet to give any information on how the money is being spent,” said Jeremy Ben-Ami, president of J Street, a liberal pro-Israel U.S. lobbying group, whose organization held its annual Capitol Hill outreach day last week. “So, if it needs extra money now … the money is there, they just need to reprogram it.”

The longer U.S. President Donald Trump’s war against Iran continues, the likelier it becomes that he’ll have to turn to Congress for extra military funding. And if that happens, he is expected to encounter a firm wall of Democratic opposition.

“There is a very solid group of Democrats whose position is going to be that the administration has gotten $1 trillion for the Pentagon and more than enough extra funds in the Big Beautiful Bill and has yet to give any information on how the money is being spent,” said Jeremy Ben-Ami, president of J Street, a liberal pro-Israel U.S. lobbying group, whose organization held its annual Capitol Hill outreach day last week. “So, if it needs extra money now … the money is there, they just need to reprogram it.”

Ben-Ami was referencing the $1 trillion that the Defense Department received in the last year from Capitol Hill, including fiscal 2026 appropriations as well as an extra $153 billion in military spending provided through a Republican budget and policy bill.

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