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Republicans now face a worst-case political scenario of being asked to fund an unpopular war over which they have exercised little oversight.
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The request mostly includes money for the Pentagon, with $67 billion going toward replenishing the military's stocks of munitions and the cost of sending so many forces to the Middle East.
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