Tuesday's election was great for Democrats. It was bad for US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and some of the White House's most ambitious national security projects.

Axar.az reports, citing Axios, that surprise wins across the map for Democrats — including in the Deep South — complicate a lot for the Trump administration.

Republicans have relied on a simple-majority funding mechanism known as reconciliation to pay for marquee projects like Golden Dome. That option is now a long shot over the next few months, and impossible after that.

Outrage over the Iran war, well beyond the half-year mark, is sure to turbocharge a long list of congressional inquiries.

And lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, including Reps. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), have suggested impeaching Hegseth.

Defense analysts agree prospects for the administration's full $1.5 trillion defense budget look grim.

A Wednesday note from TD Cowen's Washington Research Group warned that "Trump 'branded' projects are dead." Golden Dome, Golden Fleet and "other signature efforts," it added, "will be curbed."

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