Will the Israelis dance again when they do?
Posted on 07/15/2026 10:46:32 AM PDT by RandFan
HUNT VALLEY, Md. (TNND) — Senate Democrats, seething over the Trump administration’s revived war with Iran, blocked a traditionally bipartisan defense funding bill on Tuesday.
The Defense Department is seeking more than $1 trillion through a broad package that includes program funding, pay raises and policy directives as the ceasefire with Tehran ends. The administration’s hopes for the historically high request were suppressed on Capitol Hill, where a mostly party-line vote delayed passage of the National Defense Authorization Act, which usually succeeds with ease.
Forty-five Democrats voted against the legislation, preventing Republicans from overcoming the 60-vote barrier set for most bills. Majority Leader John Thune also voted “nay” to keep the act alive for later consideration. Democratic Senators John Fetterman and Alex Padilla, along with Republicans Mitch McConnell and Jim Justice, didn’t vote.
The administration restored its blockade of Iranian ports on Tuesday, escalating the war from a steady exchange of strikes that has continued from the early days of the so-called ceasefire reached in April. Tehran has also resumed attacks against commercial ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, the oil trade route playing a critical role in the global economy.
“Donald Trump is dragging America deeper into a war in Iran with no authorization, no plan, and no exit strategy,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement. “Democrats will not go along.”
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Conspiracy theorists will also tell you that there is proposed merger of the Israeli and US military in there that is also problematic.
Wait a minute. Headline says democrats did it. There are 53 republicans give or take one. Are they telling the truth?
“TexasGunLover”
Yeah you are fooling everyone with that BS handle.
You bet the democrats are supporting Iran every way they can
Dumping all Democraps is a plan, and exit strategy.
Wait it’s not Iran they’re supporting it’s the islamic Revolutionary Guard
When Iran decides to create another 9/11 does anyone think it will be aimed at a city with a Muslim Mayor? If not there, where do you think the blast will be and will it be nuclear?
Ram it home via reconciliation. Just a majority.
Think...What would Democrats do?
it takes 60
Over a trillion dollars. What will the American military really get out it?
If the budgets is a trillion that is what will spent, regardless of whether or not that value is realized.
Sorry, but the mission of the U.S. military needs to be seriously re-thought, and it shouldn’t include running around the globe being the world’s policeman.
Seething over their hatred of America.
Will the Israelis dance again when they do?
SCHUMER CANNOT BE TRUSTED TO MOUNT A NEW ROLL OF TOILET PAPER,IMO
There’s the possibility of the Trump Tanker Organization of Kuwait, Ltd., to be chartered by the gracious permission of the Emir of Kuwait.
It could buy tankers, arm them with stuff bought from Turkey, Israel and Ukraine and carry oil in and out of Hormuz.
Naturally, it would be operated for profit.
There’s nothing Congress or any US court could do about that private Kuwaiti entity.
Yes, because the "filibuster" that isn't a true filibuster means that all bills in the Senate need 60 votes to pass. It takes 60 votes to break a filibuster by invoking cloture which is a formal parliamentary procedure used to end a debate and force an immediate vote. Almost all bills in our way overly partisan Senate are filibustered these days.
Needs 60 votes for cloture.
“where do you think the blast will be and will it be nuclear?”
Rosslyn, Virginia
or
Tel Aviv
Still pushing that baseless lie, I see.
That’s just disgusting. You have zero shame.
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