More GOP lawmakers break with Trump on Iran as gas prices keep climbing
Diesel hit a record $6.31 a gallon as Iowa Republicans Nunn and Miller-Meeks, both in toss-up races, voted to curb Trump's war powers for the first time.
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Iran war cost tops $40B and billions more monthly, budget analysis finds
CBO warns the Pentagon's missile interceptor stockpile has been so depleted it could take years to rebuild if another conflict erupts.
Despite record low in veteran homelessness, half the states saw increases
Oregon saw the biggest jump at 16% and Mississippi rose 88%, while California cut its homeless veteran population by 624 to lead national declines.
Eric Conroy predicted Iran war would end ‘very soon.’ Now he backs more military spending.
As the war approaches six months with $37.5 billion spent and gas prices up 29%, Conroy's rival Landsman now calls for ending U.S. involvement entirely.
Price tag for Trump’s DC deployment of National Guard: $1.4B more through 2029
Sen. Elizabeth Warren pressed Trump's Pentagon comptroller nominee for the figure, which covers deployment through January 2029, Trump's final month in office.
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Chevron gave $200K to super PAC backing Jon Husted as he voted 13 times against withdrawing U.S. forces from Iran
Chevron's super PAC gift is the fourth-largest it received this cycle, coming as the company posted $12.1 billion in quarterly earnings tied to the war.
3 Republicans break with Trump in US Senate vote to block war in Iran
The 49-50 vote came as gas hit $4.09 a gallon and the Pentagon sought $67 billion more, with the war's death toll now at 18 U.S. troops.
Trump looks to veterans to fill trucking jobs after booting immigrants from industry
The industry faces a shortage of up to 80,000 drivers after roughly 28,000 foreign-born truckers lost licenses under a March federal rule.
Jon Husted votes against Iran withdrawal measure a day after telling CNN he wants the war to end
The 47-49 vote split Ohio's delegation, with Rep. Warren Davidson breaking from fellow Republicans to back withdrawal in the House hours earlier.
US House and Senate split on ending Trump’s war in Iran, as gas prices rise
The Senate resolution failed 47-49 as two Republicans skipped the vote, while Hegseth put the war's cost so far at $37.5 billion with $67 billion more requested.
‘Urgent requirements’ for US military funding cited by GOP as Hegseth estimates war cost
Sen. Patty Murray says Democrats may reject the $70 billion Iran war request, calling it a rubber stamp with no exit strategy.
US House panel approves $95B GOP-only budget blueprint
The 20-14 party-line vote rejected all Democratic amendments and sets up $60 billion for defense, $12 billion for farmers and $10 billion for voter ID grants.
US House GOP launches process to provide $60B for defense, up to $12B for farms
The $95 billion package also includes $10 billion for state voter ID grants, and Senate Republicans remain divided over using reconciliation a third time.
Six more US troops killed in Iran war, in crash of refueling aircraft
The U.S. death toll in the Iran war reached 13 after a KC-135 refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq, as the Pentagon acknowledged an ongoing investigation into a U.S. missile strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed at least 168 people.
