Dem Rips Trump For Starting Iran War After ‘Taking Away Your Food And Your Healthcare’ | EUROtoday

Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) on Wednesday condemned President Donald Trump and his administration for plunging the U.S. right into a expensive “war of choice” in Iran — as an alternative of utilizing the billions in taxpayer {dollars} that pay for it on federal meals packages and well being care.

“This war is costing a billion dollars a day,” Schatz wrote Wednesday on X.

The Democratic lawmaker continued, “In one fucking month we will spend more over there than we needed to save healthcare for more than 2 million Americans. They literally are taking away your food and your healthcare for this regime change war of choice.”

The regional struggle has already killed six U.S. service members and a minimum of 1,000 folks in Tehran, in response to the Iranian Red Crescent Society. Airstrikes on a ladies faculty Saturday killed a minimum of 175 folks, most of them kids underneath 12.

As Schatz identified, Trump discovered billions in taxpayer {dollars} to place towards struggle in Iran, however hasn’t tried to safe additional funds for Medicaid recipients or the 42 million Americans who depend on the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The “big, beautiful bill” the president signed final yr contains Medicaid and SNAP cuts that would have an effect on tens of millions of individuals.

Trump beforehand decried America’s expensive “forever wars” and stated the trillions in taxpayer {dollars} needs to be spent on U.S. infrastructure as an alternative.

Critics on social media have slammed Schatz as a hypocrite for calling out the expense of struggle with Iran after constantly voting in favor of sending expensive support packages to Ukraine, omitting key info: Russia invaded Ukraine, and Iran was in negotiations with the U.S. main as much as the assaults.

The Trump administration has provided wide-ranging causes for the Iran struggle, together with some that blatantly contradict one another. Trump declared throughout a video deal with Saturday after asserting the beginning of main fight operations that the nation “can never have a nuclear weapon,” regardless of confirming that solely final yr focused U.S. strikes had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear amenities.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio advised reporters on Monday that the U.S. “preemptively” bombed Iran as a result of the administration “knew” impending Israeli strikes there would set off “an attack against American forces.” Rubio walked again the assertion on Tuesday.

The president stated Monday that fight operations will doubtless final a number of weeks, however wrote afterward social media: “Wars can be fought ‘forever,’ and very successfully.”