Chris Murphy: “America stands by our allies and that the existence of the Philippines, a treaty ally, as a competing claimant...”

It’s important for members of the Senate to see the damage that has been done to U.S. facilities firsthand… I’m meeting with regional partners, in particular the Qataris and the Saudis, to talk about the impact of the Iran War… and to pull…

This should be unacceptable to every member of Congress—Republicans and Democrats—and this should be unacceptable to the American public.

I plan to see for myself the damage to American facilities, hear from our partners in the Gulf about how this war has hurt their security and their economies, and assess our regional counterterrorism efforts.

This is part of a coordinated, deliberate campaign by the Department of Defense to hide the consequences and the true costs of the Iran war.