Political Quotes

“it wasn't too long ago that Donald Trump won the 2024 election, in large part, due to his promise to get our Nation out of foreign wars and bring prices down for Americans across this great Nation. Well, 18 days into his war of choice in Iran that is costing taxpayers over a billion dollars each day, the American people can see with their own eyes that he has broken and continues to break those promises. Gas, food, housing, basic everyday necessities, costs are skyrocketing, not falling. Wars? Thirteen servicemembers are dead, over 200 have been wounded, and thousands more Americans are located in the Middle East with a target on their backs because of his choice to start a war with Iran, a choice he simply had no right to make unilaterally, but that did not stop him. Thirteen American lives and at least 1 billion taxpayer dollars a day are far too high a price to pay for an unauthorized and needless war that Trump himself cannot articulate a coherent or consistent justification for. So I am here today to support the Senator from New Jersey's War Powers Resolution that would reassert the American people's constitutional say over decisions of war and peace through their elected representatives and put an end to this unjustified, illegal war.”