Johnson says Iran supplemental funding bill ‘inevitable’ 

DORAL, Fla. – Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said on Tuesday that a supplemental funding package for the Iran conflict is “inevitable” as the military operation stretches into its second week.

“I think the supplemental funding bill for the military is inevitable,” Johnson said during a news conference at the House Republican retreat in Doral. “We don’t yet know what the details of that will be. As you know, in the process submitted by the administration and Congress, and then it’s deliberated upon in mass, we were anticipating a supplemental even before the Iran operation began. So that will happen. The timetable is yet to be determined.”

Johnson could face an uphill climb to pass an Iran supplemental funding package, as fiscal hawk conservatives in his party who typically advocate for spending cuts may balk at a bill carrying a hefty price tag.

The Trump administration has estimated that the strikes in the first two days of the conflict cost $5.6 billion in munitions.

Rep. Mike Kennedy (R-Utah) told The Hill that he imagines an Iran supplemental package is “going to be very expensive,” but added that he doesn’t know what the numbers would be yet.

Johnson can currently only afford to lose one GOP vote on any bill, assuming all members are present and Democrats are unified in opposition.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) hasn’t committed to backing such a package, if it were to come to the floor.

Asked on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday whether he plans to block all Pentagon funding even if it is critical for military readiness, Jeffries said, “We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it in terms of if the administration makes a request to Congress to consider additional funding.”

“At this particular point in time, the administration has failed to make its case as to the rationale or justification for this war of choice in the Middle East. Listen, Candidate Trump promised that he was not going to get the country into an endless war, particularly in the Middle East, in the aftermath of what we saw in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. President Trump has now done the exact opposite. And absent him actually providing us with a compelling rationale, he’s going to have a difficult case to make on Capitol Hill,” Jeffries said. 

President Trump told reporters during a news conference in Doral on Monday that the military operation will be over “very soon.”

While the president didn’t telegraph an end military hostilities within days, he projected confidence in achieving some of the war aims, degrading Iran’s ballistic missile capabilities and hobbling its navy. 

There were mixed messages coming out of the administration on Monday, however.

“We have Only Just Begun to Fight,” a Pentagon-run social media account posted Monday alongside a picture of a launched missile with the words “No Mercy” superimposed over it.

Laura Kelly contributed to this report. 

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