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Alex Padilla: “After sparking a regional war, threatening to destroy an entire country, spending tens of billions of taxpayer dollars…”

On the recordJune 19, 2026
After sparking a regional war, threatening to destroy an entire country, spending tens of billions of taxpayer dollars, damaging our economy, and sending Americans into harm’s way, Trump’s big breakthrough is an agreement that is weaker than President Obama’s 2015 deal that Trump ripped up.
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Alex Padilla
Democratic · California

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