House Speaker Mike Johnson has unveiled a $95 billion emergency funding request to pay for defense spending, including for the Iran War, and to promote President Donald Trump’s push to crack down on election laws. The plan, which still needs to go through multiple steps before it reaches the House floor, would spend up to $73 billion on the Pentagon and national security, including backfilling key agencies that have so far funded the Iran War.

Breakdown of the Plan

The plan also includes up to $12 billion in agriculture aid to help struggling farmers amid the White House’s ongoing trade war. It would include up to $10 billion for state election grants aimed at promoting Trump’s SAVE America Act. However, the cost of the bill will largely be added to the already ballooning national deficit, a huge point of contention for House and Senate conservatives.

One House GOP hardliner, Rep. Warren Davidson, put it bluntly in a post on X: ‘Bankrupt nations are difficult to defend.’ GOP sources have told CNN they couldn’t find political support to pay for the bill with cuts to government programs. It would also complicate the bill’s path in the Senate, where targeting any of those healthcare programs would trigger tough votes for GOP senators that could end up sinking the bill.

Reaction from Lawmakers

Senate Majority Leader John Thune warned earlier this week that any attempt to pay for the bill through healthcare program cuts could allow Democrats to weaponize the bill by creating ‘a lot of very challenging amendment votes’ that could pass with a few GOP defectors. Johnson and White House officials came up with the plan after weeks of discussion, including this weekend at a Camp David summit.

Original reporting: 40/29 / KHBS (NW Arkansas) — read the source article.