Franco Ordoñez

But, you know, the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, you know, said, hey, it takes a lot of money to kill bad guys.

I mean, this is money for the war.

It's very interesting because this is going to be put in front of Congress.

which is really going to put them in a challenging, challenging position.

Because President Trump, as we have reported many, many times before, did not seek consultation from Congress.

He did not seek authorization from Congress to go to war with Iran.

So this vote and the debate surrounding it, of this $200 billion, is really going to be kind of a de facto war authorization vote.

So we're going to be able to see if they get to the vote.

Who supports this?

And you can imagine how this is going to play out later on in the midterms.

Yeah.

I mean, I'll just add, you know, every time I talk with Republican strategists and I ask, what are the real political implications to this down the road?

And they say, look, President Trump has runway to continue this thing, but it does end at certain point.

Now, they say like a lot will depend on the

but also the boots on the ground thing.

That is going to resonate differently with Americans if there are American lives at greater risk and also, you know, if more die.

I mean, I think you can tell that the White House sees this as a significant threat to get this from Kent by how much Trump and his top aides have immediately gone on the attack in a very swift and fierce attack against him, you know, calling him a leaker, Trump saying he's weak.

I mean, he is the first senior Trump official to resign over the war.

And as you point out, he wrote this really stinging rebuke of the administration, telling Trump directly that there was no imminent threat and basically said Trump was kind of hoodwinked by Israel in a misinformation campaign.

I do want to say one thing, though.