The budget process is broken. It is why we are sitting here today.
Editor's note · Context
Wicker criticizes the current budget process and its impact on military spending.
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The $300 billion fund for the reconstruction and economic development of Iran — though not funded by U.S. taxpayers — would make Iran’s payoff under President Obama’s 2015 deal look like a pittance by comparison.
This budget would decrease President Trump’s military options and his negotiating leverage.
The Iranian regime has not renounced its ultimate goal — ‘Death to America, Death to Israel.’ The regime will invest every penny it receives to further that aim.





