House Republicans acted Thursday to bundle Iran war funding and the voter ID requirements President Trump is demanding into one high-stakes budget play. The House Budget Committee advanced a $95 billion framework that meets Trump's calls for more military funding, farm aid, and the national voter ID overhaul, Reuters reports. The plan would steer $60 billion to defense, $13 billion to intelligence, $12 billion to agriculture, and $10 billion for the SAVE America Act over 10 years. The measure was moved along on a party-line vote of 20-14, per Politico.
The resolution is designed to qualify for the Senate's reconciliation process, letting Republicans bypass a Democratic filibuster in the narrowly divided chamber. But the package faces turbulence on multiple fronts: House GOP leaders are already struggling to keep hardliners on board, per Reuters, while Senate Republicans are split over the war money and Trump's voter ID push heading into the November midterm elections. "We are rallying to finish what we started when the American people sent us here," said Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington Arrington, per the AP.
Democrats, who argue the bill funds an unnecessary war and would strip voting access from millions, failed to attach 14 amendments aimed at restoring social spending and cutting war funds. The blueprint includes no direct offsets, instead promising future caps that Democrats say would trigger about $200 billion in cuts to safety-net programs. "Not one word on bringing down costs for the American people. Not one word," Rep. Brendan Boyle, the panel's ranking member, said of the nearly 50-page budget resolution. "Instead, we have tens of billions of dollars for the most unpopular war in American history."
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