Chris Murphy: “No, this budget proposes a 35% reduction to the Office of Civil Rights. So that's my final question.”

There is a cover-up underway to try to hide from the American public the cost of this war and the debacle that it has caused in the region.

That is why these visits are critical. And it’s why Hegseth and Trump are so deeply committed to stopping Members of Congress from seeing the consequences of the insane, voluntary war they started.

Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion-dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians.

I was furious but determined to make my time in Qatar as productive as possible.