Democrats Must Be A Flat And Total No On Money For Trump's War
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) said that Democrats don't need to see Trump's war funding proposal. Every House and Senate Democrats needs to vote no.
With Trump’s Iran war showing signs of escalation instead of ending, the conversation is growing around Trump’s request for Congress to give the Pentagon an additional $200 billion to fund his war.
The fact is that the Pentagon has had money thrown at it for years and hasn’t passed a single audit.
In previous conflicts, Republicans were able to bully Democrats with patriotism and flag-waving into funding foreign wars, but during the Iraq war, the mentality changed, and Democrats have not been willing to easily give money to support more war.
On Sunday, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) was on NBC’s Meet The Press where he was first asked by Kristen Welker, “Would you be okay though with leaving Iran without the Strait of Hormuz being reopened? President Trump has set that deadline for Monday, saying there are going to be significant consequences if it’s not reopened.”
Khanna answered:
Let me tell you what won’t reopen the Strait of Hormuz: threatening war crimes or bombing indiscriminately power plants, cursing at Iran. What we need is statesmanship like President Obama had. What we need to do is to stop the bombing, have a ceasefire, and then to work with Oman, to work with China, to work with the Gulf allies and European allies to have a solution to allow Hormuz to be open. But it’s not going to happen by massive escalation.
Khanna was right. The United States can’t bomb or threaten its way to victory against Iran, and the congressman made it clear that Trump won’t be getting a blank check to fund his war.
It was what Khanna said next when asked about funding the war that stood out.
