{"id":19830,"date":"2026-03-10T16:47:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cole-on-paying-for-the-war\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T16:47:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:47:49","slug":"cole-on-paying-for-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cole-on-paying-for-the-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Cole on paying for the war"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole doesn&#8217;t think Congress should find spending cuts to offset the total cost of the Middle East war and the military spending request lawmakers expect from the administration in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think war is never paid for when you fight it, it&#8217;s paid for over time,&#8221; the Oklahoma Republican said in an interview Tuesday. &#8220;We didn&#8217;t pay for World War II or Korea or World War I for that matter. I mean, so I don&#8217;t think it should be offset.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have no doubt that some people will want to raise those questions,&#8221; Cole added. &#8220;I personally don&#8217;t see how you can do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole doesn&#8217;t think Congress should find spending cuts to offset the total cost of the Middle East war and the military spending request lawmakers expect from the administration in the coming days. &#8220;I think war is never paid for when you fight it, it&#8217;s paid for over time,&#8221; the Oklahoma Republican [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}