[Steel Wolf]

He just admitted that he would leave our troops in harms way because there would be no money for munitions much less for evacuation when they can't defend themselves. They would then be sitting ducks.

Supplemental funding for the war isn't the same as the military budget. Even if all of the extra money disappeared, they'd still have resources to leave, albiet in a way that a Marine in the Korean war once described as "Advancing in the other direction".

It would by far be the most embarassing and televised retreat in American military history. You'd never get a majority of Dems to vote on a cut like that, even if some of them secretly want it, to prove a point.

[tobyhill]

If it wasn't for the supplemental funding then the military would have to rob Peter to pay Paul and that would leave vulnerabilities elsewhere.