‘Cut off funding’: US lawmakers lash out at Trump for war on Iran, price increases

A growing chorus of US lawmakers has launched a blistering attack on President Donald Trump’s illegal war of choice against Iran, condemning the administration for concealing service member casualties, escalating the conflict, and plunging the American economy into a catastrophic inflationary crisis.

The lawmakers generally acknowledged the economic blowback and strategic failures of the US-Israeli aggression, with some issuing urgent calls to defund the war machine and impeach the Secretary of War.

Senator Chris Van Hollen, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued one of the strongest warnings regarding the administration's announced plans to escalate the war.

Taking to X, Van Hollen accused the Pentagon of actively hiding the true human cost of the war while preparing a massive new deployment.

"The President, who continues to hide service member casualties, is now sending up to another 10,000 troops to his illegal war of choice in Iran," Van Hollen wrote. "When Trump says he's planning on renewing his war next month, believe him. Congress must cut off funding."

Van Hollen’s remarks were triggered by recent reports that the Pentagon is preparing to deploy a third aircraft carrier strike group and additional Marine Corps ships to the Middle East.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the deployment could add an estimated 9,000 to 10,000 US troops to the region by the end of November, as Trump reportedly considers resuming strikes on Iran immediately following the early November midterm elections.

Calls to impeach Pete Hegseth

The domestic political fallout has also reached the upper echelons of the US military command.

Representative James Walkinshaw issued a call to impeach War Secretary Pete Hegseth, citing hundreds of American casualties and a complete collapse of military morale.

"Pete Hegseth is a culture warrior, not a Secretary of Defense," Walkinshaw wrote. "He calls journalists traitors and trashes service members he doesn't like. Meanwhile, our troops are being killed and wounded by the hundreds in a war he's losing in Iran. It's past time to impeach him. I'm a yes."

Lawmakers also pointed to the severe economic punishment American taxpayers are enduring as a direct result of the war.

The war has choked global energy supplies, sending fuel prices to unprecedented highs.

Senator Chris Murphy highlighted the staggering inflation caused by the administration's "disastrous, incompetently run" campaign.

"You see it most clearly in gas prices, but the rising price of diesel—nearly twice what it was before the war—is increasing the cost of everything," Murphy stated.

US diesel prices recently hit a record high of $6.53 per gallon. In an attempt to relieve the price pressures caused by the US blockade and the Iranian response, G7 countries were forced to agree to release 100 million barrels of oil and fuel products in the coming weeks.

Senator Elizabeth Warren echoed these concerns, pointing directly to how the war is suffocating the domestic housing market.

"BREAKING: Trump's war in Iran is making it even more expensive to buy a home," Warren posted, underscoring how global instability engineered by Washington is directly harming working-class Americans.

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries summarized the broad economic collapse attributed to the Republican administration.

"Inflation is up, job creation is down and the reckless war of choice in Iran has been a disaster. Republicans have crashed the economy. We continue to fight for an Affordable America."

From ‘four weeks’ to month eight: US senator condemns GOP for refusing to end Trump’s war on Iran

US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer criticizes Trump over the duration of the war of aggression on Iran, saying it has entered its eighth month despite initial promises.

The wave of condemnation from US lawmakers highlights a fracture in Washington's imperialist consensus.

As the US-Israeli war of aggression drags past its seventh month, the promised "quick victory" has devolved into a quagmire.

The Iranian Armed Forces have successfully neutralized US military assets, seized operational control over the Strait of Hormuz, and inflicted heavy economic costs on America.

As the November midterms approach, the Trump administration finds itself facing a populace exhausted by record inflation, soaring fuel costs, and the mounting bodies of US service members sent to die in a war of choice.

Despite this growing domestic opposition, the administration's apparent plan to use the post-election period to launch a new phase of aggression, deploying thousands of additional troops and a third carrier strike group, suggests that the ruling elite is unwilling to accept its strategic defeat, choosing instead to double down on a failing gamble.

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