Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), the ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, told reporters on Tuesday that Democrats are “looking at all the options” for ending the war in Iran, when asked if Democrats might try to use the upcoming December government funding deadline to force an end to the war.

Some of her fellow Senate Democrats have discussed the possibility of withholding votes on any government funding measure that does not explicitly bring the war to an end — a maneuver that could potentially result in a government shutdown when funding runs out on Dec. 11.

“We can end [President Donald] Trump’s war with Iran, but not with a snap of our fingers,” Murray said in a Senate floor speech later Tuesday. “We are fighting a deeply entrenched and lawless administration. So, it’s not going to be easy or quick. The only way to accomplish our goals is the hard way. We’re going to have to roll up our sleeves and grind it out. It’s going to take hard work, sustained pressure and sharp political strategy.”

“We are going to push to end this war as responsibly as we can and we’re going to hold Trump and [Defense Secretary Pete] Hegseth accountable for starting it in the first place,” she continued.

But she said that Trump is “absolutely not getting” the full $1.5 trillion he has requested, through the regular appropriations process and a proposed partisan reconciliation bill, for the Defense Department, nor the $70 billion supplemental the administration requested for the Iran war.

“There is no way on God’s green earth that I’m going to let Republicans jam through a funding bill that blows war spending through the roof,” Murray said, alluding to discussions of a last-minute GOP reconciliation bill.

Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE), currently the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee’s defense subcommittee and soon to be the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, seemed skeptical of the idea floated by some colleagues of rejecting any December spending bill or short-term funding patch that contained funding for the Iran war.

“It’s more complicated than that,” Coons told Jewish Insider. “Stopping the war in Iran is one of the most urgent priorities we have. Figuring out how to do that in a responsible way that doesn’t hurt our national security is something we will be discussing in the next few weeks.”