Rubén Gallego: “when I talk to people in Arizona, they tell me they want their politicians to focus on helping them afford healthcare…”

“when I talk to people in Arizona, they tell me they want their politicians to focus on helping them afford healthcare, buy a home, put groceries on the table, and fill up the tank. Not once has anyone said to me: You know what we need? Another war. And yet, that is exactly what this administration keeps delivering, one conflict after another. Right after New Year's, Trump illegally invaded Venezuela with no plan for democratic transition. Less than 2 months later, he led us into a war with Iran with no justification or definition of what victory looks like. Now, 13 servicemembers are dead; we are deploying more troops overseas; and gas prices are up 40 percent as a direct result of Trump's failing foreign policy. But as if the disaster of the Iran war and the resulting spike in oil prices weren't enough, Trump is continuing to threaten to invade Cuba as well. What we have seen in the past 5 months tells us we can't just ignore these threats. Trump's go-fast-and-break-things approach doesn't work. When you rush into a war without a plan, people die. When you send servicemembers overseas with no clear justification, they come home broken. And we can't afford the consequences of that, not when it comes to American lives. Trump has zero understanding of what it means to make life-and-death decisions because he has never served a day in his life. It is not his or his friends' children he is sending to die; it is young working-class Americans.”