Today’s notice: What will Congress do if the White House requests funds for the war with Iran? Massive turnout for Democrats continues. Blue states sue over climate policy. Is the truth out there a month after Trump said he’d release data on UFOs? And: The MAGA census makeover.
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Congress may finally be asked. It appears the White House wants Congress to weigh in on the war with Iran for the first time, to the tune of a $200 billion supplemental package to pay for ongoing combat operations.
What will Republicans do about this? The war is relatively popular with MAGA, according to recent public polling from Puck, even as the general public remains skeptical. But a majority party that had basically sat back and let Donald Trump do his war seemed caught off guard by the possibility of being a part of it, NOTUS’ Hamed Ahmadi reports.
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“It was twice what I thought it was going to be,” Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito said of the White House’s request. Hawkish Republicans seem ready to go, but plenty of GOP lawmakers have said they’d have questions before cutting a check.