Pentagon requests $200 billion for Iran war… where are all the “fiscal conservatives”?

[Conservative from Georgia]

For 4 years I couldn’t open this board without someone screaming about generational theft, the debt clock, and government waste. You almost had strokes over student loan forgiveness. You called Ukraine funding a “blank check.”

You cheered DOGE gutting Medicaid because “we simply can’t afford it.” The “fiscal responsibility” card has been permanently revoked, so don’t ever lecture anyone on this board about spending.

Now the Pentagon wants $200 billion for Trump’s Iran war, on top of the $150 billion already stuffed into reconciliation, and suddenly the debt clock is on mute. That’s $1 billion a day, and the first 6 days alone cost $11.3 billion, almost exactly what your party just cut from SNAP to “save money.”

Fiscal conservatism was never a principle. It was always just a weapon, put away the second Dear Cult Leader decides he wants to blow something up without justification, an exit strategy, or a price tag anyone’s allowed to question.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-seeks-more-than-200-billion-budget-request-iran-war-washington-post-2026-03-18/

 

[Oddball]

where are all the “fiscal conservatives”?​

They're hiding in the tall grass with all you lying prick scitllibs, who claim to be such big civil libertarians and anti war.

 

[Cellblock2429]

For 4 years I couldn’t open this board without someone screaming about generational theft, the debt clock, and government waste. You almost had strokes over student loan forgiveness. You called Ukraine funding a “blank check.”

You cheered DOGE gutting Medicaid because “we simply can’t afford it.” The “fiscal responsibility” card has been permanently revoked, so don’t ever lecture anyone on this board about spending.

Now the Pentagon wants $200 billion for Trump’s Iran war, on top of the $150 billion already stuffed into reconciliation, and suddenly the debt clock is on mute. That’s $1 billion a day, and the first 6 days alone cost $11.3 billion, almost exactly what your party just cut from SNAP to “save money.”

Fiscal conservatism was never a principle. It was always just a weapon, put away the second Dear Cult Leader decides he wants to blow something up without justification, an exit strategy, or a price tag anyone’s allowed to question.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-seeks-more-than-200-billion-budget-request-iran-war-washington-post-2026-03-18/

/----/ That is the role of the federal government. What we don't like is the widespread waste, fraud, and abuse that runs rampant-- Minesota for example.
The federal government’s constitutional role is to exercise powers specifically delegated by the Constitution while ensuring national unity, protecting individual liberties, and maintaining a balance with state authority.
Constitutional Basis
The U.S. Constitution establishes the federal government to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty (Preamble). Its powers are explicitly enumerated in Article I, Section 8, which grants Congress authority over taxation, commerce, defense, and other national matters. The Constitution also defines the executive powers of the President (Article II) and the judicial powers of the federal courts (Article III).
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[Augustine_]

For 4 years I couldn’t open this board without someone screaming about generational theft, the debt clock, and government waste. You almost had strokes over student loan forgiveness. You called Ukraine funding a “blank check.”

You cheered DOGE gutting Medicaid because “we simply can’t afford it.” The “fiscal responsibility” card has been permanently revoked, so don’t ever lecture anyone on this board about spending.

Now the Pentagon wants $200 billion for Trump’s Iran war, on top of the $150 billion already stuffed into reconciliation, and suddenly the debt clock is on mute. That’s $1 billion a day, and the first 6 days alone cost $11.3 billion, almost exactly what your party just cut from SNAP to “save money.”

Fiscal conservatism was never a principle. It was always just a weapon, put away the second Dear Cult Leader decides he wants to blow something up without justification, an exit strategy, or a price tag anyone’s allowed to question.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-seeks-more-than-200-billion-budget-request-iran-war-washington-post-2026-03-18/

You act like the GOP doesn't break spending records every chance they get

 

[Conservative from Georgia]

/----/ That is the role of the federal government. What we don't like is the widespread waste, fraud, and abuse that runs rampant-- Minesota for example.
The federal government’s constitutional role is to exercise powers specifically delegated by the Constitution while ensuring national unity, protecting individual liberties, and maintaining a balance with state authority.
Constitutional Basis
The U.S. Constitution establishes the federal government to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty (Preamble). Its powers are explicitly enumerated in Article I, Section 8, which grants Congress authority over taxation, commerce, defense, and other national matters. The Constitution also defines the executive powers of the President (Article II) and the judicial powers of the federal courts (Article III).
lostpine.com

So you were ok with Biden spending a lot in DEFENSE?
you’re not gaslighting anyone. You’re a member of the Trump cult. Any money requested during his presidency you will support. Because it’s a cult.

 

[Oddball]

So you were ok with Biden spending a lot in DEFENSE?
you’re not gaslighting anyone. You’re a member of the Trump cult. Any money requested during his presidency you will support. Because it’s a cult.

You were fine throwing nearly $1 TT at an agency that never ever passed an audit because your boy was (allegedly) in charge, so STFU.

 

[Natural Citizen]

The national debt clock just surpassed 39 trillion Federal Reserve Notes.

 

[Cellblock2429]

So you were ok with Biden spending a lot in DEFENSE?
you’re not gaslighting anyone. You’re a member of the Trump cult. Any money requested during his presidency you will support. Because it’s a cult.

/----/ I have no problem with any president spending on defense. Bidum leaving billions of weapons and gear in Afghanistan was a major screwup..

 

[Conservative from Georgia]

You were fine throwing nearly $1 TT at an agency that never ever passed an audit because your boy was (allegedly) in charge, so STFU.

Even Fox is less cultist than you:

 

[LeftofLeft]

For 4 years I couldn’t open this board without someone screaming about generational theft, the debt clock, and government waste. You almost had strokes over student loan forgiveness. You called Ukraine funding a “blank check.”

You cheered DOGE gutting Medicaid because “we simply can’t afford it.” The “fiscal responsibility” card has been permanently revoked, so don’t ever lecture anyone on this board about spending.

Now the Pentagon wants $200 billion for Trump’s Iran war, on top of the $150 billion already stuffed into reconciliation, and suddenly the debt clock is on mute. That’s $1 billion a day, and the first 6 days alone cost $11.3 billion, almost exactly what your party just cut from SNAP to “save money.”

Fiscal conservatism was never a principle. It was always just a weapon, put away the second Dear Cult Leader decides he wants to blow something up without justification, an exit strategy, or a price tag anyone’s allowed to question.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-seeks-more-than-200-billion-budget-request-iran-war-washington-post-2026-03-18/

To get rid of a pigfucker theocracy that has been a threat to US for 47 years may be pricy. Yet you people want US to look the other way when it comes to illegals fraudulently stealing from hardworking Americans.

 

[JLW]

You were fine throwing nearly $1 TT at an agency that never ever passed an audit because your boy was (allegedly) in charge, so STFU.

Honestly, what a nutty argument. Because you have problems with Biden’s spending, you are for spending hundreds of billions of dollars on this needless war. So STFU when it comes to criticizing Trump’s war. If you are in favor of unlimited funding for it, you are all in this debacle of a war. Come out of the closet, Oddball and just declare yourself a proud Trumpist.

 

[blackhawk]

They are the same place Democrats are when they ask for money for all that free shit, they promise which is never free.

 

[toobfreak]

For 4 years I couldn’t open this board without someone screaming about generational theft, the debt clock, and government waste. You almost had strokes over student loan forgiveness. You called Ukraine funding a “blank check.”

So wait--- you are trying to equivocate finding massive fraud, corruption in government, and student loans just forgiven which the students agreed to repay forcing others to repay it for them so that Joe could enlist a generation of college students as new democrats, along with giving hundreds of billions away in a war that did not even concern us while half the money was laundered back to the DNC with fighting a pitched battle with an intractable foe whose very life is sworn to see the West destroyed who has already killed thousands of Americans and is a direct nuclear threat in the future?

In other words, we must be a CULT for supporting following through on a war against an entrenched enemy compared to Joe Biden pissing away billions just to advance strength for his own party?

Seriously? Do you even read what you type?

 

[80zephyr]

For 4 years I couldn’t open this board without someone screaming about generational theft, the debt clock, and government waste. You almost had strokes over student loan forgiveness. You called Ukraine funding a “blank check.”

You cheered DOGE gutting Medicaid because “we simply can’t afford it.” The “fiscal responsibility” card has been permanently revoked, so don’t ever lecture anyone on this board about spending.

Now the Pentagon wants $200 billion for Trump’s Iran war, on top of the $150 billion already stuffed into reconciliation, and suddenly the debt clock is on mute. That’s $1 billion a day, and the first 6 days alone cost $11.3 billion, almost exactly what your party just cut from SNAP to “save money.”

Fiscal conservatism was never a principle. It was always just a weapon, put away the second Dear Cult Leader decides he wants to blow something up without justification, an exit strategy, or a price tag anyone’s allowed to question.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-seeks-more-than-200-billion-budget-request-iran-war-washington-post-2026-03-18/

How would you have contained Iran?

 

[Greenbeard]

No money for Americans’ food or health care, always plenty for new forever wars.

 

[frigidweirdo]

How would you have contained Iran?

Once the US has "contained Iran", who else will they need to contain?

Funny how it's always OPEC countries they need to "contain".

 

[CrusaderFrank]

We'll pay for it with the Iranian Oil King Jared will send us from Iran

 

[Frankeneinstein]

So you were ok with Biden spending a lot in DEFENSE?

if he did anything wrong it was not spending more and not increasing the pentegon budget even more

you’re not gaslighting anyone.

spoken like a true champ

You’re a member of the Trump cult.

how many times did you say you voted for him?

Any money requested during his presidency you will support. Because it’s a cult.

 

[80zephyr]

Once the US has "contained Iran", who else will they need to contain?

Funny how it's always OPEC countries they need to "contain".

You are in favor of them getting nuclear warheads?

 

[my2¢]

The fiscal conservatives in Washington say lower taxes, watch revenues climb, spend like a drunken soldier on national defense, disregard the fact we're make our way to the poor house, and take high concern about the debt only when the other side is in power. It's the main reason I don't take seriously those on the board that believe a vote not backing either one of the sides is a wasted vote.