They voted it down. Now why is that so noteworthy? Well, the bill was passed out of committee in the Senate with broad bipartisan support. And yet the Democrats still engaged in a stunt on the floor and they rejected it. So now they are on record specifically and exclusively to block the paychecks of the troops, to block the funding of our national defense in a very dangerous moment in world history. (01:30–01:36)
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Asserts that Democrats rejected the defense funding bill as a political stunt.
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