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Senate Democrats Vote Against Defense
By: The Editorial Board - wsj.com - October 17, 2025
They won’t even vote to pass a military funding bill they supported in committee.Democrats won’t vote for a stopgap measure to reopen the government, and on Thursday the Senate GOP tried another idea: Advancing a bill to fund the Defense Department for a full year. This is shrewd on both the merits and politics, and it’s instructive that Democrats scuttled a procedural vote 50-44. Three Democrats voted to advance the bill.
The biggest cost of a government shutdown is lost time and money for a U.S. military that needs new technology and more munitions. “A lot of stuff moves slower, a lot of stuff stops moving,” Palmer Luckey, founder of the defense technology company Anduril, lamented recently to reporters. Or as GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell put it after the vote: “Our adversaries are not standing still.”
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