“Amid an unauthorized war with Iran, with no clear strategy or long-term resolution in sight, Congress must use its power of the purse to reassert its war authority,” Steve Ellis, president of the nonpartisan Taxpayers for Common Sense, said in a statement. “Exploding the Pentagon budget will not make us safer. It will explode the debt. It will waste taxpayer dollars on programs that don’t work or that we simply don’t need.”