Markey's charge is about a vote, and a vote is a matter of record. One thing to set aside first. Markey said "a war in Vietnam" and corrected himself to Iran inside the same breath. That is a slip of the tongue, and it is not what we are rating. The trillion-dollar figure points at H.R. 8800, the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2027, which the House passed 216 to 212 on 22 July 2026 at $1.15 trillion. Moulton voted no. He had already voted yes on the motion to recommit it — the move to send a bill back rather than pass it. The same afternoon the House adopted H. Con. Res. 113, the budget blueprint carrying more than $70 billion for the war in Iran, 216 to 214. Moulton voted no on that as well. Those are the two measures the charge can be reaching for, and he voted against both. Six Democrats crossed over on the defense bill — Cuellar, Davis, Golden, Gonzalez, Gray and Perez. Moulton was not one of them. There is one vote that fits the words "voted for," and it is worth naming, because the case against Markey is stronger for it, not weaker. Moulton voted yes on the FY2026 defense authorization — S. 1071, passed 312 to 112 on 10 December 2025. That bill is $901 billion, not a trillion; it was law seven months before the first dollar of Iran war money came to a vote; and it carries none of that money. Wrong bill, wrong number, wrong war. Moulton's own office put out a statement the day of the FY2027 vote calling a yes "an implicit vote of support for Donald Trump's failure of a war with Iran." That is the opposite of what Markey said he did. There is something underneath the attack, and it is worth saying plainly. Moulton holds more than a million dollars in defense-related stock, and on that same July afternoon he voted against the Stop Insider Trading Act, which passed 232 to 198. A primary opponent can fairly raise both. But neither is what was said. What was said was that he voted for it, and he did not.