The government is back at it again, trying to spend money we don't have on a conflict nobody wanted. This week, the White House dropped an $87.6 billion funding request on Congress. Most of that cash is supposed to pay for Donald Trump's war in Iran—a war he started back in February 2026 with Israel without even asking Congress for permission first. Now they want the taxpayers to clean up the mess and fund a war that only 25 percent of the country actually thinks is making us look strong, according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll.

Let's break down where this massive bag is actually going. OMB Director Russell Vought wrote a letter showing that $67.1 billion of the cash is for the Iran conflict. And get this: $21 billion of that is going straight to buying munitions and feeding the defense industrial base. That is billions of dollars for weapons manufacturers while people back home are struggling to pay rent and keep the lights on.

They are also trying to throw $11.1 billion at US farmers because they are catching major heat from the administration's tariffs and the high cost of diesel and fertilizer. The crazy part is, those high fuel prices were driven up by the government's own war in the Middle East. They broke the system, and now they are trying to spend billions of taxpayer dollars to put a band-aid on it.

To try and make the pill easier to swallow, the White House is pushing to allow year-round sales of E15 gas. It is a cheaper blend with more ethanol, but it also pumps way more pollution into the air when it gets hot outside. So basically, they want to save you a few pennies at the pump while making the air dirtier in our neighborhoods during the summer.

This $87.6 billion isn't even the whole picture. It's on top of a massive $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget—the biggest they've put up in decades. While Congress already moved $1.15 trillion of that, the White House wants the remaining $350 billion pushed through on a party-line vote. Even some senior Republicans are looking at this request sideways, wondering why the military needs this much cash.

Meanwhile, the whole government is locked up in a major beef over voting laws. Trump is straight-up refusing to sign a bipartisan housing bill that would actually help people, holding it hostage until the Senate passes the "Save America Act" to put heavy restrictions on voting nationwide. He did the same exact thing before, trying to hold up a foreign surveillance law to get his way on the voting bill.