U.S. Senate Panel Signals Likely Reduction in Pentagon’s Iran War Funding Ask

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:56:00 +0200

U.S. lawmakers are signaling that the Pentagon is expected to scale back its request for additional funding to finance the ongoing war against Iran, after initial plans called for more than 200 billion dollars in supplemental spending. Senator Chris Coons, the leading Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, said the Pentagon has acknowledged that such a large figure is politically unworkable and may be too much for Congress to accept. He noted that the Pentagon has “heard the message” that the original request is “more than the market will bear,” indicating that the final figure will likely be far lower, though no specific amount or timeline has yet been made public. The discussions come amid broader concerns on Capitol Hill about the war’s rapidly mounting costs, which Coons and other officials estimate exceed a billion dollars per day, with total spending already running into the tens of billions of dollars. Lawmakers are also weighing whether and how to authorize