Jeffries: Any extra funding request for Iran war is ‘beyond the pale’

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said Monday that any request for supplemental funding for the conflict in Iran would be “beyond the pale” due to the lack of details given to Congress.

Jeffries slammed the idea that the White House and congressional Republicans could be inching toward putting supplemental funding for Iran in a bill and passing it through a budget process called reconciliation to bypass the 60-vote threshold in the upper chamber.

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