Watch live: Hegseth, Caine testify before Senate on Iran supplemental funding
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- Pete Hegseth and Dan Caine will testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday afternoon on the White House's $87.6 billion supplemental funding request.
- The Trump administration's $87.6 billion ask bundles two distinct priorities into a single bill: paying for the Iran war and curtailing the Ebola outbreak.
- AP and The Hill headlines both zero in on Iran war funding as the focal point, with The Hill framing the session as a 'grilling' and characterizing the war as 'souring.'
- The Ebola containment component of the supplemental is entirely absent from both AP and The Hill's headlines — a public-health priority buried beneath the dominant Iran framing.
Why it matters: The $87.6 billion supplemental forces senators into a single up-or-down vote covering both the Iran war and Ebola containment, and the AP and Hill framing — 'grilling' and 'sours' — telegraphs that the Iran portion is where the political heat will land, leaving the Ebola component with no separate spotlight in coverage.
