We’re supposed to cut Medicare, Medicaid and child care for Montanans to fund a disastrous war?

By: George Ochenski

Outlets: Daily Montanan

Published: April 3, 2026

Words: 601

Last Updated: 3 months, 4 weeks ago

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We’re five weeks into a tragic and pointless war of choice against Iran started by Donald Trump and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu. And no, despite the constitutional mandate that only Congress can declare wars, this president didn’t get Congressional approval before leaping into the unmitigated and growing disaster of the Iran war.

Now, with relegated Congress to the sidelines, the president is demanding that Congress appropriate $200 billion dollars more to the record-setting trillion …

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