{"id":176293,"date":"2026-06-24T23:32:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T23:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/176293\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T23:32:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T23:32:59","slug":"trump-seeks-88-billion-for-iran-war-farmer-aid-and-ebola-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/176293\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Seeks $88 Billion for Iran War, Farmer Aid, and Ebola (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump asked Congress to pass a supplemental spending package to backfill the cost of the war in Iran and respond to public health crises abroad.<\/p>\n<p>The $87.6 billion appropriations request is dominated by the $67.1 billion increase for Defense Department, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/aboutbgov.com\/bl64\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a copy of the request<\/a> obtained by Bloomberg Government. The increase offsets the costs of the US-Israel war with Iran that Trump is attempting to wind down with a controversial peace deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI urge the Congress to take action on these important and urgent requests as soon as possible,\u201d White House Office of Management and Budget &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump asked Congress to pass a supplemental spending package to backfill the cost of the war&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[33107,53870,53869,34],"class_list":["post-176293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-attempt","tag-disease-outbreak","tag-federal-agency-budget","tag-iran"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116807703096220971","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}