David Frum

Somebody needs and somebody will make an issue out of that.

And the strategy is not to preserve the non-funding.

The strategy is to get the department funded, but with rules, with the right priorities, and with a terrorism-first approach.

And by the way, the FBI is part of this.

And Kash Patel needs to be in the sights as someone who not just is a crook and a time waster, but as someone who is leaving the country naked to its enemies.

Because there's a government.

There's a government.

There are just so many points where Democrats could make this case.

For example, in 2022, when Russia escalated its war against Ukraine, Russia is one of the world's largest energy producers in the world.

Russia and Ukraine are the largest food producers in the world.

They created a huge shock to energy and food markets.

I wrote about this a lot at the time of the Atlantic.

And through an amazing success of coordinated response between the United States, Europe, Japan and other friends, that challenge was blunted.

And what the Russians hoped would be an economic disaster did not turn into one.

But one of the means used was that President Biden authorized the largest release of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in American history.

And that was a good call.

That was the right thing to do in 2022.

But in 2024 and 2025, with these amazing low fuel prices that President Trump kept bragging about, that was the time to go refill.

And he didn't do it.

He didn't do it.