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'It’s Going To Leave Americans Cold And...': Dem Murray Destroys Trump's Iran War In Hegseth Hearing
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9:09Now PlayingUS News: During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on Tuesday, Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) and War Secretary Pete Hegseth sparred over the growing cost of the Iran war, Pentagon spending, and the impact on American families.
Murray blasted the administration for what she called a “war of choice,” warning that the conflict has already cost billions of taxpayer dollars while Americans struggle with rising costs at home. She accused the Pentagon of failing to provide clear accounting for damage to U.S. military facilities and questioned why Congress should approve another massive defense budget increase.
“The war in Iran has not only cost 13 American service member lives, it is also costing American taxpayers dearly,” Murray said. She argued that the $29 billion already spent “could be helping people get healthcare” instead of “paying for bombs dropped in a war that American people overwhelmingly opposed.”
Murray also slammed Trump’s proposed $1.5 trillion defense budget, saying Americans are being asked to sacrifice healthcare, childcare, housing, and other priorities to fund war spending. “You’re spending families’ hard-earned tax dollars on a war that many strongly oppose,” she told Hegseth.
In one of the hearing’s sharpest moments, Murray invoked President Dwight Eisenhower’s famous warning about militarization, concluding: “It’s going to leave Americans cold and hungry to fund Trump’s war and make defense contractors a fortune.”
Hegseth defended the administration’s strategy, arguing the spending is necessary to confront Iran and prevent Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
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