32 Days to a Shutdown: Some Democrats Want to Use Government Funding to Choke Off the Iran War

Funding runs out Dec. 11. Emboldened by their midterm wins, some Senate Democrats are urging the party to block any spending bill with "another cent" for the war — while conservatives push to freeze spending before Democrats take over. Here is how the fight shapes up.

By Clara Hughes

Congress came back to Washington on Monday with one deadline that cannot be ignored: government funding runs out on Dec. 11. That gives lawmakers 32 days, as Punchbowl News counted on Monday, to pass the 12 annual spending bills or another stopgap. Last week's Democratic landslide has changed the math. Punchbowl reported that the odds of a shutdown "have increased dramatically" since Election Day, fueled in part by public opposition to the Iran war. Keep reading with Altas Premium. Below: who on the Democratic side wants to cut off war money, what top appropriators are saying, what conservatives