On the recordMay 27, 2026
The costs of keeping this war going one more day are just too high, both in reputational cost to the United States but also in the cost to lives and the pocketbooks of millions of Americans.
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Murphy's speech on the Senate floor regarding the Iran war.
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But the war needs to end because every day that the war continues, America gets weaker, Iran gets stronger, and people here in the United States get screwed, as prices go up and up and up.
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I was glad that the president got a ceasefire [in June], but I could tell by the terms it wasn't going to last. It wasn't a real agreement, but at this point, many of us are willing to support almost any agreement.
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