The House has approved a spending measure that includes over $30 billion to escalate the war in Afghanistan. The war funding passed by a 215-to-210 vote after Democratic leaders combined it with around $50 billion for domestic initiatives. The new spending would come on top of the $130 billion already earmarked for the Afghan and Iraq wars this year. Hours before the vote, members of the House’s Out of Afghanistan caucus challenged their colleagues for approving war spending while cutting social programs in the name of deficit reduction. Democratic Congressmember Raúl Grijalva called the ongoing support for war spending an “essential hypocrisy.”

Rep. Raúl Grijalva: “And here we are, prolonging a war that most of the American people oppose, and not paying for it. And that’s the essential hypocrisy. We are required to offset anything for education. We’re required to offset anything for jobs. And now this war is going to — reaching $280 billion of American taxpayer, all under an emergency supplemental category which doesn’t require offsets of pay-fors.”

The war funding measure now goes to the Senate, where Republicans are expected to oppose the bill’s non-military provisions.