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Democrats May Defund the Troops
The Wall Street Journal ^ | Nov. 6, 2026 5:59 pm ET | The Editorial Board

Posted on 11/08/2026 9:47:54 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

They may cut off funds for the Iran blockade, aiding the mullahs.

Voters who rebuked President Trump for his many excesses should savor the week because politics in Washington aren’t about to get more substantive or enlightening. The first Democratic big idea is to take the government budget hostage to defund U.S. troops in the middle of a naval blockade in the Middle East.

A stopgap funding measure expires on Dec. 11, and Democrat Ro Khanna this week floated “a continuing resolution prohibiting the financing of any combat activities of the U.S. military in Iran.” Democratic leader Chuck Schumer told the press that many of his members will want to exploit the funding fight to force concessions on Iran.

The U.S. now has one political party and a faction of another (including Vice President JD Vance) openly telling America’s enemies that we don’t have the will to sustain so much as a naval blockade. Democrats think they have a mandate to end the war no matter the details, but voters can recognize defeat and that’s what driving the U.S. from the Strait of Hormuz at the current moment would be. Ask the mullahs if they’ll allow oil to move. Democrats can expect to co-own the war’s unpopularity under the surrender strategy.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon has been running a war on a budget that didn’t account for weeks of strikes and a months-long blockade. Republican appropriator Sen. Susan Collins has warned of “near-term solvency challenges” in U.S. forces. The Pentagon’s high fixed costs mean it may have to cannibalize exercises, flying hours, maintenance and the like.

Republicans had better get moving with a lame-duck reconciliation bill that gives defense enough funding to survive Democratic intransigence. The Pentagon is facing two nuclear adversaries and a major technological evolution in...


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1 posted on 11/08/2026 9:47:54 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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2 posted on 11/08/2026 9:48:59 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("The EU is the old Soviet Union dressed in Western clothes." --Mikhail Gorbachev)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If the Republicans had done this in May, they might still control at least one house of Congress.


3 posted on 11/08/2026 9:49:39 AM PST by Alberta's Child (If I leave here, it’s because I’m tired of arguing with geriatric parrots wearing MAGA hats.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Aiding and abetting. Arrest them for being enemies of the state.


4 posted on 11/08/2026 9:54:00 AM PST by DownInFlames (p)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Republicans had better get moving with a lame-duck reconciliation bill...”

Thune will stop anything good for the country.


5 posted on 11/08/2026 10:03:30 AM PST by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: Alberta's Child

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6 posted on 11/08/2026 10:04:44 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They MAY!?

Have we met the Democrats?


7 posted on 11/08/2026 10:06:57 AM PST by stanne
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Dems will do anything to let Iran win. Even a naval blockade is too much for anti American democrats


8 posted on 11/08/2026 10:10:36 AM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Why are you blog pimping?

There’s no scenario where any of this wishful thinking changes anything.

The challenge now is to prepare for our multiple responses.


9 posted on 11/08/2026 10:14:56 AM PST by Bob Wills is still the king (Wake up and smell the coffee!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Democrats are helping our sworn enemies.

Is that not enough to force them from office?


10 posted on 11/08/2026 10:20:11 AM PST by Skywise
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To: Alberta's Child
If the Republicans had done this in May, they might still control at least one house of Congress.

In retrospect, they should have done that.

11 posted on 11/08/2026 10:22:46 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Bob Wills is still the king

I have numerous military veterans who highly recommend this podcast including intel officers. If you don’t want to hear truth, don’t listen.

Thank God our forefathers didn’t cry about defeat and, instead, fought our enemies.

Sorry my post offended you!


12 posted on 11/08/2026 10:23:22 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The next government shutdown will make the previous ones look like a mild hiccup.


13 posted on 11/08/2026 10:24:57 AM PST by william clark (A man who is unwilling to be proven wrong has little regard for truth.)
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To: DownInFlames

“Enemies of the state” is a meaningless insult.

Where’s the crime?


14 posted on 11/08/2026 10:27:12 AM PST by Miami Rebel
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To: Alberta's Child

“If the Republicans had done this in May, they might still control at least one house of Congress.”

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15 posted on 11/08/2026 10:27:38 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Obama’s Muslim accomplices here and elsewhere need to realize Israel can take out Iran’s refineries.

The Russians have already bought up all the replacement parts China can produce.

Iranians will be walking for a long time.


16 posted on 11/08/2026 10:31:36 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The Democrats first move will be to defund the troops in Iran.

That's the start while Trump is in office

When they win in 2028 they are going to fund the rebuilding of Iran's missile and nuclear capabilities and facilitate China and Russia's ballistic missile tech transfer just like they did under Obama

17 posted on 11/08/2026 10:32:59 AM PST by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead)
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defund what??...there are no troops on the ground....US 5TH FLEET operates there normally


18 posted on 11/08/2026 10:33:13 AM PST by basalt
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To: escapefromboston

Voters who rebuked President Trump for his many excesses “

The kind of BS we expect from the TDS a-holes at the WSJ. This happened because 6 years of inflation boiled over. Constant irritation every time you buy gas or groceries will make people do stupid things.


19 posted on 11/08/2026 10:34:50 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And who’s going to sign it? And it takes a two-thirds majority (supermajority) in both the House of Representatives and the Senate to approve a budget (or any appropriations bill) if the president vetoes it.

The republicans in those chambers want to keep their jobs. And there isn’t but a couple of them that are willing to step forward with a backbone and take their licks depending on what they are.

If the truth ever came out into the open about what is actually going on in the middle east being orchestrated by Iran, Russia, and China, a whole bunch of liars would be in the spotlight. And even the media wouldn’t be able to supply bail.

wy69


20 posted on 11/08/2026 10:35:26 AM PST by whitney69 (uipment )
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