{"id":21384,"date":"2026-04-15T17:31:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/vought-white-house-doesnt-have-ballpark-total-for-iran-war-funding\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T17:31:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:31:38","slug":"vought-white-house-doesnt-have-ballpark-total-for-iran-war-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/vought-white-house-doesnt-have-ballpark-total-for-iran-war-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Vought: White House doesn\u2019t have \u2018ballpark\u2019 total for Iran war funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>White House budget director Russ Vought told lawmakers Wednesday that the Trump administration hasn\u2019t settled on \u201ca ballpark\u201d range for how much funding it will ask Congress to approve for the Iran conflict. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re not ready to come to you with a request. We\u2019re still working on it. We\u2019re working through to figure out what\u2019s needed in this fiscal year versus next fiscal year,\u201d Vought said during testimony before the House Budget Committee on President Donald Trump\u2019s fiscal 2027 budget blueprint.<\/p>\n<p>Republican lawmakers are eager to receive the White House&#8217;s request for the Iran war, as GOP leaders discuss whether to fashion an emergency funding package that might attract Democratic votes or use the party-line reconciliation process to boost military spending. <\/p>\n<p>It has been more than six weeks since the U.S. and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran and almost a month since Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed that the Pentagon sent the White House a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/03\/19\/congress-braces-for-200b-iran-war-request-00835914\" target=\"_blank\"><u>request for $200 billion in emergency funding<\/u><\/a> to support the military during the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>The White House has said the forthcoming military funding request amid the Iran onslaught is separate from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/04\/03\/trump-white-house-budget-00857167\" target=\"_blank\">the president&#8217;s request<\/a> earlier this month for a record $1.5 trillion in defense funding for the upcoming fiscal year. <\/p>\n<p>Vought could get more questions on this topic Thursday when he testifies before the Senate Budget Committee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House budget director Russ Vought told lawmakers Wednesday that the Trump administration hasn\u2019t settled on \u201ca ballpark\u201d range for how much funding it will ask Congress to approve for the Iran conflict. \u201cWe&#8217;re not ready to come to you with a request. We\u2019re still working on it. We\u2019re working through to figure out what\u2019s [&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-21384","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\/21384","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=21384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}