Trump Administration Requests $88 Billion To Pay For Iran War

BANNON: We have to have a convo about this $80B bill.

You can’t just walk up to Capitol Hill and say, “Here’s the bill. Go print some money to pay for it.” That doesn’t hack it anymore.

I want Qatar, UAE, Saudis, and Israel to write checks.

What’s in this for the American ppl?… pic.twitter.com/S940twoj6b

— Grace Chong, MBI (@gc22gc) June 27, 2026

BRUTAL: Trump advisor @alexbruesewitz says @marklevinshow is “incredibly unhelpful to the country.” pic.twitter.com/d2TxeliMKt

— TCN (@TCNetwork) June 27, 2026

BANNON: Right now, we have the worst of both worlds. We’re funding Israel’s wars, we’re responsible for them, and we’re getting dragged into another war. pic.twitter.com/H8xSWBIkEn

— Grace Chong, MBI (@gc22gc) June 27, 2026

“TRUMP IS BACK!”

A visibly giddy Ben Shapiro celebrates Trump bombing Iran in wake of cargo ship attack: “That’s great! It’s excellent!” pic.twitter.com/PgQnCttxQN

— Chris Menahan ?? (@infolibnews) June 27, 2026

Alex Bruesewitz: Trump ending his “excursion” in Iran “proves that the president isn’t a slave to Israel.”

“The president wanted to [launch the war]… It was the president’s instincts. It certainly wasn’t, uh, blackmail related to Epstein.” pic.twitter.com/vuVwZE4NCY

— Chris Menahan ?? (@infolibnews) June 26, 2026

President Trump’s position on Iran has been unwavering for decades: Iran must never be allowed to acquire a nuclear weapon.

After a 90-day military campaign, which I prefer to call an excursion, he now stands on the verge of turning that long-held principle into reality.… pic.twitter.com/7LYJv8AarR

— Alex Bruesewitz ?? (@alexbruesewitz) June 26, 2026

After targeting everything from screwworm monitoring funding, Medicaid, NOAA and nuclear safety engineers at the Department of Energy, the Trump administration is going hat in hand to Congress to ask for $88 billion dollars to help pay for Trump’s war with Iran for Israel.

FOX News:

“The Pentagon’s massive funding request to pay some of the costs of the Iran war is going to be a hard sell for Senate Democrats, and a key issue buried deep in the multibillion-dollar request could divide Republicans. 

Congress received the nearly $88 billion package Wednesday afternoon after months of speculation about whether it would ever come, and exactly how much it would cost. The current price tag is drastically lower than earlier estimates, which project the package could reach as high as $200 billion. 

But after roughly four months and a tenuous peace deal in place, Democrats appear unwilling to support the funding that would replenish munitions, despite sweeteners that appear geared toward attracting their support. …”

I deeply regret pushing the meme that conservatism was changing.

• A war with Iran for Israel … literally the white whale that neocons and Jewish donors have been chasing for over twenty years and which had zero popular support. Trump delivered Bibi Netanyahu and John McCain’s dream
• An even bigger corporate tax cut
• Regime change ops in Venezuela and Cuba
• Broken promises on “mass deportations”
• The usual culture war performance art
• Selling pardons to wealthy criminals
• The Epstein files cover up
• Purging the Republican Congress for AIPAC and the RJC of anyone who criticizes Israel. The people who wanted to expose pedophiles were held accountable
• High gas prices purely because of Israel
• Big promises to rein in spending translate into asking for a $1.5 trillion dollar military budget and cuts to social safety net programs
• Doubled down on higher inflation after lying about bringing down prices
• Congress obsessing over “antisemitism” while doing virtually nothing about the economy and inflation which are the priority of voters.

Trump 2.0 wasn’t different from previous Republican administrations.

Scott Greer:

“The wait is finally over.

Whitepill: The Online Right and the Making of Trump’s America is officially available to order through the Passage Press store. It will be available next month on Amazon and other fine sellers. If you want to read it now, buy it through Passage.

The book explains how Alt Right ideas went mainstream and took over the conservative movement. It no longer makes sense to speak of a “Dissident Right” when its ideas are spread by the White House and the most popular conservative commentators.

This argument is controversial. Right-wing critics allege that conservatism and the GOP are the same as ever. The only change is that the Online Right got “tricked” into thinking they may have made a difference. Dissidents can only overcome this treachery by… voting Democrat and moving into the woods… or something. While the grand alternative to normal politics remains shaky at best, the conclusion is that everything that’s happened over the last ten years has been a waste. The American Right is the same as it ever was. …”

Shortly after the Alex Bruesewitz interview with Tucker Carlson went live, the war with Iran flared back up again with new strikes by the U.S. military and retaliatory strikes by Iran.

CNN:

“The US military conducted strikes on Friday against Iranian military targets around the Strait of Hormuz in response to Tehran’s Thursday attack against a commercial vessel near the key waterway, according to US Central Command.

“US aircraft struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations and coastal radar sites,” CENTCOM said. “The unwarranted aggression against commercial shipping by Iranian forces clearly violated the ceasefire.”

CENTCOM released video Friday night of one of the strikes on Iranian targets. ….”

It is almost like the Trump administration wanted to underscore my point that it can’t be trusted on Iran, there is no reason to believe the MoU is a permanent end of the war and that Israel could easily drag us back in and it could flare back up again and get much worse.