White House Seeks $87.6B for Iran War, Farm Aid, Ebola

The request met with immediate opposition from congressional Democrats. Congress would need to appropriate money to fulfill the White House's request.

"President Trump launched a reckless and costly war with Iran – without authorization from Congress or the support of the American people – that he should never have started, and now, instead of doing anything to help families get by, he is asking taxpayers to pick up the tab and give him billions more to wage wars overseas," Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, said in a statement.

"And he is making this request for more funding as the Pentagon already has a historic annual budget and sits on over $100 billion in unspent funding Republicans provided in their Big Ugly Bill," Murray said, referring to the 2025 GOP tax and spending package known as the One Big Beautiful Bill.

Vought's letter also requests $10 billion for farmers, who have struggled in the last year and a half in part because of Trump's trade policies, $500 million for restoration and construction projects in Washington, and $1 billion to renovate Penn Station in New York City.

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