The margin was four.
A $1.15 TRILLION defense authorization, the largest in American history, cleared the House 216 to 212 on Wednesday, 7 Republicans breaking ranks to oppose it and 6 Democrats crossing over to carry it home.
The one amendment members were fighting over, stripping the US-Israel defense integration clause, never reached the floor at all.
Karen Kwiatkowski spent her Air Force years inside that budget machinery, though the absence she keeps circling is a different one.
Congress never authorized this war.
The previous round wrapped just shy of the 60-day War Powers deadline, strikes have since resumed, and not one member has risen to ask whether that clock is ticking again.
Money moves because every district gets a cut.
Roughly 70% of Americans want out.
Her parting line, lifted from an old Washington economist: things that can't go on forever, don't.
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