House Republicans Want To Cut Food And Healthcare To Pay For Trump's Iran War

Some House Republicans are demanding that the $200 billion in funding that Trump wants for his Iran war be offset with cuts to healthcare and food for the American people.

If it feels like we’ve been here before, it’s because we have.

Republicans offset a fraction of the cost of their tax cuts for rich people and corporations with the biggest cuts in healthcare and food assistance in the nation’s history.

After Donald Trump started a billion-dollar or more a day war in the Middle East, the administration is back, red hat in hand, asking Congress to give the Pentagon more of your hard-earned money to pay for the war with Iran.

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Any real fiscal conservative would tell the administration that the Pentagon could find the money by cutting some of its rampant waste, fraud, and abuse. A real fiscal conservative would also suggest that the burning embers of what remains of the Department of Homeland Security don’t need the pile of money that was given to them just last year.

There’s plenty of money lying around if the administration wants to look for it.

The supposed fiscal conservatives in the House are demanding that the $200 billion in funding be offset, not with cuts to other areas of the Pentagon or DHS. These House fiscal conservatives want to cut food and healthcare from the American people.