The prospect of a ballooning new spending bill has GOP leaders bracing for a messy internal fight.
Republicans on Capitol Hill are preparing to confront a staggering price tag for the war in the Middle East after closed-door briefings this week detailed the rapid consumption of expensive munitions and the lack of any firm deadline for the end of the military campaign.
Asked how much the Iran offensive would cost, House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) didn’t sugarcoat it.
“A lot,” he replied.
Senior Republicans privately expect Donald Trump’s administration to request tens of billions of dollars for the Middle East conflict and other military needs from Congress in the coming days, with some GOP lawmakers hearing estimates that the Pentagon is spending as much as $2 billion a day on the war.
Yeah, we knew that already, the economics of using a $5,000,000 missile to shoot down a $40,000 drone is idiotic. None of that is a shock, that math is being demonstrated in Ukraine already. If you knew that why would you start a war where you had no other alternatives?
And to you dumbasses in Congress/the Senate, YOU HAD A CHANCE TO VOTE AGAINST THIS VIA THE WAR POWERS RESOLUTION BUT YOU CHOSE NOT TO! Now we are stuck fighting a war that does not benefit us, was unnecessary, and will cost us in lives, money, and security because no one wants to associate with sociopaths… That doesn’t even include the horrors we are inflicting on the innocent civilians over there.
The lessons that were not learned in GW1, GW2, Iraq, Afghanistan, are still fucking us.
This is really the US military’s achilles’ heel. Sure, they have the best toys but all of that comes at a cost and more dependencies on supply chains that can be exploited.
There needs to be aovement in the US where literally NO ONE running for re-election gets voted back in.
Replace EVERYONE in there at the moment. Even if you think your current person is the one good one, obviously they aren’t effective enough.
Doesn’t matter the party, do not make it us vs them. Make it the people vs the government.
Just make a movement to completely replace everyone and make it clear to them that if they do not listen, their jobs are not safe.
Broader primaries where 2 candidates get through for each party, then ranked choice voting in the main election would go a long way to that but at this point. I think the rot/stupidity/corruption/malevolence may be terminal at this point without some major wake up or change.