On the recordJune 28, 2026
But it's not just a question of opportunity cost and attentional challenges.
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schatz.senate.govBut it's not just a question of opportunity cost and attentional challenges.
Senator Schatz on the impact of the Iran war.
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We haven’t even had an up or down vote to authorize this war in the first place.
You have a President of the United States whose stated policy on tariffs, on energy, on Iran, on health care, on food, is to raise the price of everything.
These are not bureaucratic mix-ups. Every day this money doesn't get to where it's supposed to go; every contribution, worth hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars, is delayed, people go hungry. People get sick. People die.
The President of the United States has decided that Americans should pay more for everything.