{"id":20068,"date":"2026-03-16T09:20:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T09:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cole-on-paying-for-the-war-2\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T09:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T09:20:21","slug":"cole-on-paying-for-the-war-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cole-on-paying-for-the-war-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cole on paying for the war"},"content":{"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&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/03\/10\/congress\/tom-cole-iran-war-funding-cost-00820776\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\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&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20068","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=20068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}