参议院民主党领袖查克·舒默（纽约州）表示，将有参议院共和党人支持尽快结束与伊朗的战争，并威胁称，如果有必要，民主党将动用“财政大权”，切断国防部资金，以迅速终止冲突。
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) says there will be Senate Republican support for ending the war with Iran as soon as possible and threatened that Democrats will use the “power of the purse” to starve the Defense Department of funding if necessary to bring a swift end to the conflict.
舒默周三在华盛顿特区民主党参议员竞选委员会（DSCC）总部举行的新闻发布会上说：“我们将结束这场战争。我们已经有一些共和党人加入我们，共同结束战争。建国先贤赋予了‘财政大权’，作为遏制总统在未经美国人民同意的情况下发动战争的方式之一。”
“We are going to end the war. We have some Republicans already who have joined us in ending the war and the Founding Fathers had the power of the purse as one of the ways of deterring a president who does war without the consent of the American people,” Schumer said at a press conference at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) headquarters in Washington, D.C., Wednesday.
四名共和党参议员曾与民主党人一道投票，支持一项战争权力决议，指示特朗普总统在国会未正式通过使用武力授权的情况下，撤出针对伊朗敌对行动的美军。共和党参议员汤姆·蒂利斯（北卡罗来纳州）、苏珊·柯林斯（缅因州）、丽莎·穆科斯基（阿拉斯加州）和兰德·保罗（肯塔基州）在该伊朗战争权力决议上次提交参议院全院表决时，投了赞成票推进该决议。
Four Republican senators voted with Democrats in support of a war powers resolution directing President Trump to withdraw U.S. troops from hostilities against Iran without a formal authorization for use of military force from Congress. Republican Sens. Thom Tillis (N.C.), Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), and Rand Paul (Ky.) voted to advance the Iran war powers resolution when it last came to the Senate floor.
参议员比尔·卡西迪（共和党-路易斯安那州）一度态度未定，但最终在9月下旬与参议院共和党领袖在参议院议场旁的曼斯菲尔德室商议后，投了反对票。卡西迪6月曾支持一项伊朗战争权力决议，随后在一次私人会议上与特朗普发生激烈争吵后改变了立场。
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) was on the fence about how to vote but ultimately voted against the measure in late September after huddling with Senate GOP leaders in the Mansfield Room off the Senate floor. Cassidy voted in support of an Iran war powers resolution in June and then changed his vote after getting in a shouting match with Trump at a private meeting.
但即使参议院通过一项具有法律约束力的战争权力决议，特朗普仍可行使否决权，而民主党没有足够票数推翻他的否决。民主党对特朗普战争行动更有杠杆作用的是阻挠五角大楼拨款。白宫6月请求近700亿美元五角大楼紧急拨款，因遭到民主党强烈反对而搁置。年度国防拨款法案同样陷入僵局。
But even if the Senate passes a war powers resolution that has the binding force of law, Trump could still veto it and Democrats don’t have the power to override his opposition. Democrats have more leverage over Trump’s conduct of the war by blocking funding for the Pentagon. The White House requested nearly $70 billion in emergency funding for the Pentagon in June, a request that has stalled in the face of intense Democratic opposition. The annual defense appropriations bill is also stuck.
民主党人威胁要阻挠年度国防授权法案和国防拨款法案，只要国家仍在与伊朗交战。“我个人的看法是，如果战争结束了，那么在国防授权和国防拨款上实现两党合作的机会就存在。我认为如果战争没有结束，那将极其困难，”参议员布赖恩·沙茨（民主党-夏威夷州），即将出任的参议院民主党党鞭，几周前对记者表示。
Democrats are threatening to block the annual defense authorization bill and defense appropriations measure as long as the nation is still at war with Iran. “My own view is that if the war is over, then the opportunity for bipartisanship on defense authorization and defense appropriations is there. I think if the war’s not over it’s going to be extremely difficult,” Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), the next Senate Democratic whip, told reporters several weeks ago.