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总统唐纳德·特朗普周三在安德鲁斯联合基地走下空军一号。
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国会共和党人在伊朗战争问题上出现分歧，关键议员对花费数千亿美元延长冲突持怀疑态度，有几位议员拒绝在没有明确白宫战略的情况下支持任何资金。
未来几周，[总统唐纳德·特朗普]可能会要求国会拨款高达2000亿美元以资助正在进行的战争。但这将极难通过。多位参与初步讨论的人士表示，共和党领袖认为，即便没有白宫更详细的计划，他们在自己党内也没有足够的票数来为这场战争提供资金。
特朗普周四预览了这一资金请求，称他希望确保军方拥有“大量弹药”，但没有具体说明五角大楼需要这笔资金用于何处。
“我们希望处于有史以来最好的状态，最好的状态。”特朗普周四在椭圆形办公室表示。“为确保我们保持顶尖水平，这只是一个小代价。”
两名知情人士透露，五角大楼已要求白宫批准向国会提出超过2000亿美元的额外军事资金请求，以资助正在进行的战争。如果不是几周，也可能需要几天时间，该请求才会提交给国会。然而，许多议员——甚至一些共和党人——已经对批准如此巨额的资金表示怀疑，特别是因为特朗普政府尚未寻求国会对伊朗战争的批准，而这场战争即将进入第四周。消息人士称，白宫和五角大楼尚未明确说明军事行动的结束时间表，这是国会内部的主要担忧。
补充资金请求的一部分将用于帮助抵消冲突中的弹药支出和行动成本——仅在军事打击的第一周，这些费用就总计约110亿美元，消息人士称。两位消息人士补充说，一些请求的资金也可能用于与伊朗战争没有直接关联的其他领域，这是五角大楼之前用来资助国防项目的一种会计手段。
国防部长彼得·赫格塞斯周四上午表示，这一数字可能会改变，因为“要消灭坏人需要花钱”。但他和其他政府官员需要努力向自己的政党推销，让他们迅速批准这一请求。
国防部长彼得·赫格塞斯周四抵达五角大楼参加简报会。
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坚定支持特朗普的众议员劳伦·博伯特告诉CNN，无论如何她都不会支持为伊朗增加资金。
“我投反对票。我已经告诉了领导层。我对任何战争补充资金都投反对票。我厌倦了在那里花钱。”博伯特告诉CNN。“科罗拉多州有民众连生活都难以负担。我们现在需要美国优先的政策。”
到目前为止，博伯特在党内是个例外。但更多共和党人告诉CNN，他们越来越担心美国是否正被拖入一场特朗普本人曾反对的“无休止战争”。一些人表示，只有在白宫更好地解释其计划——包括可能向中东派遣数千名美军——后，他们才会考虑支持伊朗资金请求。
“我们在做什么？我们在谈论地面部队。我们在谈论那种长期行动。现在我们已经进入了一个完全不同的局面。”长期以来一直密切关注五角大楼支出的得克萨斯州议员奇普·罗伊告诉CNN。“他们需要做更多的简报和更详细的解释，说明我们将如何支付费用以及这次行动的任务是什么？”
同为财政保守派的肯塔基州共和党众议员托马斯·梅西补充道：“这引发了一个问题，他们计划在那里待多久？目标是什么？这是第一笔2000亿美元吗？会不会变成1万亿美元？”
提出质疑的不仅是共和党极右翼。阿拉斯加州参议员莉萨·穆尔科斯基——参议院中间派和共和党主要支出领袖——表示，在白宫向国会概述其计划之前，她不会为这场战争提供更多资金。
“阿拉斯加民众问我这场战争会持续多久？会有地面部队吗？会花多少钱？”穆尔科斯基周四表示。“这些问题的答案大多是我不知道。”
共和党人对地面部队的担忧
地面部队问题尤其令共和党人感到不安，就连特朗普在国会最坚定的盟友也建议尽快撤军。前海军海豹突击队员、威斯康星州共和党众议员德里克·范奥登告诉CNN，他专门建议政府不要部署地面部队：“我不想看到这种情况发生。”
“我认为我们需要尽快找到退出策略。”田纳西州众议员蒂姆·伯切特补充道。“我不想把美国人以任何形式派往那里。”
国会共和党人到目前为止一直避免公开介入伊朗战争。他们接受了秘密简报，没有进行任何正式投票授权行动，并且继续推进自己的议程。
3月15日，伊朗德黑兰一栋房屋在导弹袭击后受损，民众在废墟中搜寻。
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然而，随着五角大楼的资金需求增加，国会很快将决定下一步行动。多位消息人士告诉CNN，在幕后，一些共和党人已与民主党人一起向政府官员施压，要求说明战争成本。迄今为止，只有两份数十亿美元的成本评估报告已与议员分享，且均不完整。
一些共和党人已经为任何更多的五角大楼资金设定了条件。罗伊、伯切特和田纳西州众议员安迪·奥格尔斯告诉CNN，他们希望资金能够被抵消。
与此同时，众议院预算委员会主席乔迪·阿林顿告诉CNN，他希望通过打击联邦政府中“大量存在的浪费、欺诈和滥用行为”来为这笔资金买单。
众议员埃里克·伯尔利森表示，在他考虑支持2000亿美元额外资金之前，五角大楼应该“通过审计”：“我们知道他们多年来都没有通过审计，所以如果他们通过审计，我会感到更放心，这样我就知道至少他们在跟踪资金情况。”
其他财政保守派，包括密苏里州参议员乔希·霍利和佛罗里达州的里克·斯科特表示，在权衡如何投票之前，他们希望更多了解战争资金请求的细节。
“我不想过于草率，我想看看他们实际请求什么。”霍利说。
与此同时，共和党人对长期冲突的可能性感到焦虑，因为即将到来的关键选举和已经飙升的国家债务。
私下里，许多议员和官员承认华盛顿的政治现实：这个共和党不再是过去几十年里的鹰派政党。在不到十年的时间里，共和党从由战争英雄参议员约翰·麦凯恩领导的政党，变成了由特朗普和“让美国再次伟大”运动领导的政党，特朗普承诺“不再有永久战争”。
共和党领袖一直坚称这是一场短期战争，议长迈克·约翰逊周四坚持表示，美国任务将“很快结束”，同时承认霍尔木兹海峡的封锁“正在延长冲突”。
“这是一次有限的行动，任务几乎已经完成。”约翰逊说。
众议院议长迈克·约翰逊周四在美国国会大厦与记者交谈。
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约翰逊以及参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩都没有明确表示国会是否会满足白宫的伊朗资金请求，《华盛顿邮报》首先报道了这一请求的价格标签。
图恩表示，在参议院是否能通过该法案尚不确定，因为该法案可能需要几名民主党人的支持才能克服阻挠议事。
“我认为他们必须向我们展示他们将如何使用这笔资金。”图恩说。
但共和党人担心，长期战争导致油价继续上涨，将损害他们在中期选举中的机会。
“我们知道我们暂时会面临更高的汽油和石油价格，但如果这些价格持续高企，如果我们继续在霍尔木兹海峡面临问题，如果我们继续卷入这场冲突，那么这将是一个更大的问题。”新泽西州共和党众议员杰夫·范德鲁说。
在整个华盛顿，大多数民主党人仍然坚决反对特朗普的战争，甚至亲以色列的中间派民主党人也告诉CNN，在当前条件下，他们仍然对资助这场战争持怀疑态度。这进一步复杂化了特朗普推动的战争资金请求——这通常需要至少一些参议院民主党人的支持才能使任何法案到达他的办公桌上。
共和党领袖已经制定了一个替代计划：使用去年他们通过特朗普减税法案时使用的相同预算工具来批准战争资金。
但这条路径将暴露共和党内部的巨大分歧，财政保守派渴望使用特殊权力绕过阻挠议事程序，以推动对政府项目的重大改革——比如有争议的医疗补助削减。然而，与共和党领导层关系密切的共和党人表示，这将是一项巨大的努力。
在共和党等待白宫正式的资金请求时，许多人希望在未来几周看到重大降级。
本月早些时候，密苏里州共和党众议员迈克·弗洛在特拉华州多佛空军基地参加了六名在科威特阵亡士兵的庄严转移仪式，其中包括一名来自他所在州的中士，他表示，他“不想让家庭经历这种事”，并希望战争即将结束。
“每个人都希望这场战争结束。”弗洛说。
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2026-03-19T18:33:16.004Z / CNN Politics
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Cracks are emerging among congressional Republicans over the Iran war with key lawmakers skeptical about spending hundreds of billions of dollars to prolong the conflict and several refusing to support any money without a clear White House strategy.
In the coming weeks, [President Donald Trump] could ask Congress to spend as much as $200 billion to fund the ongoing war. But it will be enormously difficult to pass. GOP leaders do not believe they have the votes to fund the war even in their own party without far more detailed plans from the White House, according to multiple people involved in those preliminary discussions.
Trump previewed the funding request on Thursday, saying he wants to ensure the military has “vast amounts of ammunition” but without offering specifics on what the Pentagon needed the funding for.
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“We want to be in the best shape, the best shape we’ve ever been in,” Trump said from the Oval Office Thursday. “It’s a small price to pay to make sure that we stay tippy top.”
The Pentagon has asked the White House to approve a request to Congress for over $200 billion in additional military funding to fund the ongoing war, according to two sources familiar with the matter. It will likely be days, if not weeks, before that request comes to Congress. Yet already, many lawmakers – even some Republicans – appear skeptical of approving such a large sum, particularly since the Trump administration has yet to seek Capitol Hill’s approval for the war with Iran, which is about to enter its fourth week. The White House and Pentagon have yet to articulate a clear timeline for ending military operations, which is a major concern inside the Capitol, sources said.
The supplemental funding request would, in part, be used to help offset munitions expenditures and operations costs from the conflict — which totaled roughly $11 billion during just the first week of military strikes alone, the sources said. Some of the requested funding could also go toward other areas not directly associated with the Iran war, both sources added – an accounting maneuver the Pentagon has used before to fund defense projects.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday morning the figure could change because “it takes money to kill bad guys.” But he and other administration officials will need to make a hard sell to their own party about quickly approving that request.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth arrives for a briefing at the Pentagon on Thursday.
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Rep. Lauren Boebert, a staunch Trump ally, told CNN she would not support more money for Iran under any circumstance.
“I am a no. I have already told leadership. I am a no on any war supplemental. I am so tired of spending money over there,” Boebert told CNN. “I have folks in Colorado who can’t afford to live. We need America first policies right now.”
So far, Boebert is an outlier in her party. But plenty more Republicans told CNN they are increasingly anxious about whether the US is being dragged into an “endless war” that Trump himself ran against. Several said they would only consider the Iran funding request if the White House better explains its plans — including the [possibility of thousands] of US troops being sent to the Middle East.
“What are we doing? We’re talking about boots on the ground. We’re talking about that kind of extended activity. Now we’re in a whole ‘nother zip code,” Texas Rep. Chip Roy, a fiscal hawk who has long scrutinized Pentagon spending, told CNN. “They got a whole lot more briefing and a whole lot more explaining to do on how we’re going to pay for it and what’s the mission here?”
Fellow fiscal hawk, GOP Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, added: “It begs the question, how long do they plan to be there? What are the goals? Is this the first $200 billion? Does this turn into a trillion?”
It’s not just the GOP’s hard-right wing with questions. Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski — a centrist and top GOP spending leader in the Senate — said she won’t fund more money for the war until the White House outlines its plan to Congress.
“The people in Alaska are asking me how long is this going on? Are there going to be boots on the ground, how much is this going to cost?” Murkowski said Thursday. “The answer to most of this is I don’t know.”
GOP anxiety over boots on the ground
The question of ground troops, in particular, is rattling Republicans, with even Trump’s staunchest allies in Congress advising a quick exit. GOP Rep. Derrick Van Orden, a former Navy SEAL, told CNN he has specifically advised the administration against any boots on the ground: “I don’t want to see it.”
“I think we need to find an exit strategy as fast as possible,” added Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee. “I don’t want to put Americans on the ground out there in any shape, form or fashion.”
Congressional Republicans have so far avoided publicly entwining themselves in the Iran war. They’ve been briefed in secret. They’ve taken no formal votes authorizing the action. And they’ve chugged away on their own agenda.
People sift through the rubble in a house in Tehran, Iran, on March 15, two days after it was damaged by missile attacks.
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As the Pentagon’s price tag increases, though, Congress will soon be in charge of what’s next. Behind the scenes, some Republicans have joined Democrats in pressing administration officials about the war’s costs, multiple sources told CNN. Only two cost assessments – both in the billions –have been shared with lawmakers to date, and both are incomplete.
Some Republicans are already laying out conditions for any more Pentagon money. Roy, Burchett and Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee told CNN they want the money offset.
House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington, meanwhile, told CNN he wants to pay for it by targeting the “boatload of waste, fraud and abuse through the federal government.”
Rep. Eric Burlison said the Pentagon should “pass an audit” before he could consider backing $200 billion in additional funds: “We’ve known that they haven’t passed an audit in many, many years, so I want to it’ll give me comfort to if they pass an audit, and then I’ll know that at least they’re keeping track of the dollars.”
Other fiscal hawks including Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri and Rick Scott of Florida said they want more details about the war funding request before weighing in on how they would vote.
“I don’t want to get too far over my skis on this, I’d like to see what they actually request,” Hawley said.
Meanwhile, anxiety is creeping up in the GOP about the possibility of a long-term conflict, with a critical election ahead and an already-skyrocketing national debt.
Privately, many lawmakers and operatives acknowledge the political reality in Washington: This GOP is simply no longer the hawkish party of decades past. In less than a decade, Republicans went from a party led by war hero Sen. John McCain to one led by Trump and MAGA with his “no more forever wars” mantra.
GOP leaders have maintained that it’s a short-term war, with Speaker Mike Johnson insisting on Thursday that the US mission will end “very soon,” while acknowledging that the closure of the Strait of Hormuz “is dragging it out a little bit.”
“It’s a limited operation, the mission is all but complete,” Johnson said.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson talks with reporters in the US Capitol on Thursday.
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Johnson, along with his Senate counterpart, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, were both noncommittal about whether Congress would fulfill the White House’s Iran funding request, the price tag of which the Washington Post first reported.
Thune said “it remains to be seen” if it could pass in the Senate where it would likely need several Democratic votes to overcome a filibuster.
“I think they’re going to have to show us how they want to use it,” Thune said. “For sure.”
But Republicans are concerned that a prolonged war, where gas prices continue to increase will hurt their chances in the midterms.
“We know that we are temporarily going to have higher gas and petroleum prices, but if those prices stayed high, if we continue to have problems with the Strait of Hormuz, if we continue to be involved in this, then it’s more of an issue,” GOP Rep. Jeff Van Drew said.
Across Washington, most Democrats remain adamantly opposed to Trump’s war and even centrist, pro-Israel Democrats have told CNN they remain skeptical of funding the war under current conditions. That further complicates Trump’s push to pay for the operation — which would typically need at least some support from Senate Democrats to get any bill to his desk.
GOP leaders are already drawing up an alternative plan: Approving the war funds using the same budgetary tool they used to pass Trump’s tax cuts last year.
But that path would expose a massive divide in the GOP, with fiscal hawks eager to use the special powers to bypass a filibuster to tackle major overhauls of government programs — like the contentious Medicaid cuts. Republicans close to GOP leadership, however, have said that would be an enormous lift.
As Republicans await the formal funding request from the White House, many are hoping to see a major deescalation in the coming weeks.
GOP Rep. Mike Flood, who stood at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware earlier this month at the dignified transfer of six fallen soldiers who were killed in Kuwait, including a sergeant from his state, said he doesn’t “want families to go through that” and hopes the war is nearly over.
“Everybody wants this over,” Flood said.
CNN’s Alison Main, Ted Barrett and Ellis Kim contributed to this report.
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