I also have written about the many things you should insist be included in any spending bill prior to lending your support. It is a list of bipartisan legislation that would protect our constitutional system of separated powers. More than this is necessary, but it would buy us time.

I have written about why this dirty full-year CR would transfer congressional power to the White House and further empower Trump to dismantle what's left of our federal government, including the Defense Department (which you value so highly). A wrong vote now makes your future votes irrelevant.