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Iran War

Floor Speech

Date: May 15, 2026
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. DeSAULNIER. Mr. Speaker, in 75 days, Trump's war has caused the deaths of over 2,000 innocent civilians, including 413 children and 15 American servicemembers.

Initially, President Trump called his actions in Iran a ``little excursion'' that would last a couple of weeks. Now he has acknowledged it is a war.

Last month, the President threatened a whole civilization to die.

This war has cost almost $30 billion to American taxpayers. It has caused the American inflation rate to rise to almost 4 percent. It has raised gas prices for hardworking Americans across this country.

President Trump does not have the power to declare war. This is a war, not an excursion. Only Congress can declare war.

We cannot continue to cede congressional authority to a President who acts like this.

I call on my Republican colleagues and leaders in Congress to stand up and push back against this reckless and corrupt President before any more lives are lost.

Pope Leo, a great American moral authority says: ``The future belongs to men and women of peace.'' I stand with the great American Pope Leo XIV.

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