民主党人借助中期选举的大胜之势，正寻求在明年重夺多数席位后，迫使特朗普总统与伊朗的战争画上句号。
Democrats, on the wings of the big midterm wave, are looking to grind President Trump’s war with Iran to a halt once they retake the majority next year.
参议院民主党人表示，他们已获得部分共和党人的支持以终结这场冲突，该冲突已拖延八个多月，并扬言将动用“财政大权”，切断五角大楼发动战争所需的资金。
Senate Democrats say they have some Republican support to end the conflict, which has dragged on for over eight months, and have threatened to use the “power of the purse” to deprive the Pentagon of funds needed to wage the war.
特朗普总统和万斯副总统均将伊朗战争归咎为共和党遭遇选举惨败的主因，民主党夺得了众议院、参议院、州长职位和州议会的多数席位。
Both Trump and Vice President Vance pointed to the Iran war as the main culprit for why Republicans experienced an electoral wipeout, with Democrats taking the majority in the House, the Senate, governors’ mansions and statehouses.
“我们将结束这场战争。我们已有一些共和党人加入我们结束战争的行列，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手段之一，”少数党领袖舒默（注：原文标注为R，实为民主党人）周三在新闻发布会上表示。
“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,” Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (R) said at a press conference on Wednesday.
四名共和党参议员——蒂利斯（北卡罗来纳州）、柯林斯（缅因州）、穆尔科斯基（阿拉斯加州）和保罗（肯塔基州）——此前曾在一项决议上支持民主党，该决议指挥总司令在国会未正式授权使用武力的情况下，撤回美军参与针对伊朗的敌对行动。
Four Republican senators — Thom Tillis (N.C.), Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), and Rand Paul (Ky.) — previously backed Democrats on a resolution to direct the commander-in-chief to withdraw U.S. service members from hostilities against Iran, barring formal congressional authorization for use of military force.
国会面临12月11日的资金截止日期，若无法通过拨款法案将面临政府停摆，距离两院多数党易手不足一个月。目前不清楚共和党人在失去控制权前是否会试图通过最后一项协调法案，其中可能包含伊朗战争的紧急拨款。
Congress is staring down a Dec. 11 timeline to fund the government or suffer a shutdown, less than a month before the majorities in both chambers switch. It’s unclear whether Republicans will attempt to pass one final reconciliation bill before losing control, which could include emergency Iran war funding.
两党候选人在竞选期间均批评伊朗战争，因其民望日益低落。这场冲突已耗资至少470亿美元，并导致能源价格飙升。特朗普长期以来承诺让美国避免卷入外国战争。
Candidates on both sides of the aisle criticized the Iran war during their campaigns, as it became less and less popular. The conflict has cost at least $47 billion, while causing energy prices to skyrocket. Trump has long promised to keep the U.S. out of foreign wars.
包括至少一位有意角逐2028年大选的议员在内的部分民主党人表示，众议院党团应要求终止对伊朗战争的资助，并将其作为达成任何临时政府拨款协议的条件。
Some Democrats, including at least one with 2028 aspirations, said the House caucus should demand an end to Iran war funding as part of any agreement to keep the government funded, even temporarily.
“支持一项禁止为美军在伊朗的任何战斗活动提供资金的临时拨款法案。像结束越战那样结束伊朗战争，”众议院军事委员会成员、加利福尼亚州民主党众议员罗·卡纳周三表示。
“Support a continuing resolution prohibiting the financing of any combat activities of the U.S. military in Iran. End the Iran war like we did for Vietnam,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), who sits on the House Armed Services Committee (HASC), said on Wednesday.
众议院拨款委员会资深成员、威斯康星州民主党众议员马克·波坎周五写道：“我们不能等到下一届国会才结束与伊朗的战争——必须立即结束！”众议院外交委员会民主党首席议员、纽约州众议员格雷戈里·米克斯本周表示，他将在下一届国会开幕首日提出一项联合决议，以结束对伊朗的战争。
Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wisc.), a senior member on the House Committee on Appropriations, wrote Friday that “we can’t wait until the next Congress to end the war with Iran – it must end NOW!”Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said this week that he will introduce a joint resolution to end Iran on the first day of the next Congress.
米克斯在给《国会山报》的声明中说：“民主党将利用听证会、立法、监督和财政大权，推动政府走向持久的外交解决方案。在我们专注于解决美国民众需求的同时，我们将继续战斗，以结束特朗普发动的这场失败的选择性战争。” 预计将于1月出任众议院议长的少数党领袖、纽约州众议员哈基姆·杰弗里斯在一封“致同僚信”中表示，党团的优先事项之一将是制止伊朗的“鲁莽选择性战争”。
“And Democrats will use hearings, legislation, oversight and the power of the purse to push the administration toward a durable, diplomatic solution,” Meeks said in a statement to The Hill. “We will keep fighting to end Trump’s failed war of choice, as we focus on addressing the needs of the American people.”House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), who is slated to become the House Speaker in January, said in a “Deal Colleague” letter that one the caucus’s priorities will be to stop the “reckless war of choice” in Iran.
白宫6月请求提供876亿美元补充拨款，其中包括670亿美元五角大楼拨款。随着民主党反对声浪增大，该拨款包在国会进展不大。
The White House in June requested $87.6 billion in supplemental funding, which includes $67 billion in Pentagon funding. The package has not gone far in Congress with increased Democratic opposition.
通常具有两党支持性质的《国防授权法案》（NDAA）今年因党派斗争而岌岌可危。民主党认为该政策法案的总额上限应削减数千亿美元，并要求为美国对伊朗战争设置护栏。
The typically bipartisan National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is on shaky ground this year amid partisan infighting. Democrats think the policy bill’s top-line number should be shaved off hundreds of billions of dollars, and they are demanding guardrails around the U.S. war with Iran.
参议员马克·凯利（民主党-亚利桑那州）周六在华盛顿特区“Crooked Media”举办的“Crooked Con”活动上表示，民主党应停止为白宫运作提供资金，以迫使总统结束冲突。凯利是参议院军事委员会成员。
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said on Saturday at Crooked Media’s “Crooked Con” event in Washington, D.C. that Democrats should halt funding for White House operations to make the president end the conflict.
“我们掌控这一点。所以如果他找不到退出的办法，我们就可以向他施压，”凯利指特朗普说道。几小时后，参议院情报委员会成员、参议员迈克尔·贝内特（民主党-科罗拉多州）表示支持凯利的提议。
“We control that. So if he can’t find a way out of this, we can put pressure on him,” Kelly said in reference to Trump. Hours later, Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), who is on the Senate Intelligence Committee, endorsed Kelly’s pitch.
预计将出任“新民主党联盟”下一任主席的众议员妮基·布津斯基（民主党-伊利诺伊州）表示，民主党结束伊朗战争的筹码在于拨款程序。但她也希望从五角大楼获得关于何为胜利的答案。
Rep. Nikki Budzinski (D-Ill.), who’s expected to be the next chair of the New Democrat Coalition, said the Democrats’ leverage to end the Iran war rests in the funding process. But she also wants answers from the Pentagon about what victory looks like.
“确实我认为这是通过国防预算和拨款程序。这是财政大权。我认为我们知道，这届政府向国会提出了一笔荒谬的、惊人的资金来为这场战争提供资助。对此将毫无胃口。因此我认为这可能将是我们工具箱中最重要的工具，用以追究他们的责任，”布津斯基在接受《国会山报》电话采访时表示。
“I do think that it’s through the Defense budget and the appropriations process. It is the power of the purse. I think we know that this administration put out a ridiculous, eye-popping amount to Congress to fund this war. There’s going to be no appetite for that. And so I think that that is going to be, probably, the most important tool that we’re going to have in our toolbox to hold them accountable,” Budzinski said in a phone interview with The Hill.
“但我同时也渴望，除了拨款程序之外，让他们到国会面前解释何为成功——他们至今仍未阐明成功是什么样子，”这位伊利诺伊州民主党人说。
“But I also am eager, beyond just the appropriations process, to have them come before Congress to explain what does success — they still have not articulated what success looks like,” the Illinois Democrat said.
一些资深众议院共和党人同意关于战争缺乏战略的看法，这场战争已耗尽美军弹药库中的顶级武器系统，并导致中东地区的美军基地因伊朗袭击而严重受损。
Some top House Republicans agree about the lack of strategy over the war, which has emptied out the U.S. military magazines of top-tier weapons systems and left U.S. bases in the Middle East severely damaged by Iranian attacks.
众议院监督和政府改革委员会主席、众议员詹姆斯·科默（共和党-肯塔基州）周五拒绝表示国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯是否应被弹劾或以其他方式免职。
Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chair of the powerful House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, declined on Friday to say whether Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth should be impeached or otherwise removed from office.
“但我可以非常有信心地告诉你……关于赫格塞斯有很多疑问，”科默周五在《国会山报》姊妹网络NewsNation上表示。
“But I can tell you with a high level of confidence that … there’s a lot of questions about Hegseth,” Come said Friday on The Hill’s sister network NewsNation.
“我们完全不知道在伊朗问题上接下来的策略是什么。没人对伊朗局势感到满意，我认为共和党选民比民主党选民更对伊朗发生的事情感到愤怒，”科默说。
“We have no idea what the strategy is moving forward in Iran. No one’s happy about Iran, and I think the Republican voters are more upset about what’s going on in Iran than the Democrat voters,” Comer said.
长期呼吁撤换赫格塞斯的众议院民主党人表示，监督不会止步于此。他们还在敦促共和党同僚通过一项法案，禁止在未经国会批准的情况下动用额外资金用于战争。
House Democrats, who have long called for Hegseth’s removal, said the oversight will not stop there. They are also encouraging their GOP colleagues to pass a bill that would prohibit the use of additional funds for the war with congressional approval.
“每一个突然在选举季鼓起勇气反对战争的共和党人，最好言行一致，投票结束战争，并通过我的法案，防止特朗普再在这上面花一分钱，”众议员帕特·瑞安（民主党-纽约州），众议院军事委员会另一名成员兼前陆军情报军官，在给《国会山报》的声明中说。
“And every Republican who suddenly found the courage to oppose the war come election season better put their money where their mouth is and vote to end the war and pass my bill to prevent Trump from spending a single dollar more on it,” Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.), another HASC member and former Army intelligence officer, said in a statement to The Hill. – Mike Lillis contributed