Not too long ago, if a Congressman dared to withhold cash from the war effort — especially funds for fighting improvised bombs — he would’ve been blasted as a traitor. But the politics of Iraq and Afghanistan have shifted, in all sorts of ways. And so lawmakers now feel safe in taking a whack at the Pentagon’s controversial bomb-stopping group, the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, or JIEDDO. Inside Defense reports that the agency’s $500 million budget for next year has been slashed by about 75 percent, to $120 million, in Congress’ joint appropriations report.