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Its an all too common ploy by some politicians, insert something into a bill, that you know the other party disagrees with, and then label the other side as not caring about the bill, when they vote against it. But that is how it goes. The bill gets defeated and they work out their differences and try to pass it again.
Our country is deeply in debt, maybe $5 billion, which is almost 5% of the war funding, is a bit too much to send off to the IMF.
Where in the story does it quote a republican in congress as saying "We Abandon the Troops"??
It doesn't, and I provided two additional links to Aero, refer to them.