Rep. Jimmy Gomez Floor Remarks In Support of Iran War Powers Resolution(As Delivered)
Washington,
March 4, 2026
"This is a war of choice disguised as a war of necessity. During the last several days, President Trump offered a shifting list of justifications: regime change, retribution, helping protesters, stopping Iran's missile and nuclear weapons program. A program Trump claimed just last year that he obliterated, and a ballistic missile program that the Department of Defense says is not going to be capable of reaching the US until 2035. "Then Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, offered another, that he had to strike first in case Iran might retaliate after a possible Israeli attack. Think about that, not because Iran posed an imminent threat, not because Congress authorized war, but because someone else might attack. This is not a strategy. This is cherry picking facts and lying to the American public to justify a predetermined decision to launch a war. "So Americans are asking two questions, why are we doing this, and how does it end? "The constitution is clear, the president cannot start a war alone. So we need to make sure that the people's representatives are involved, because once troops are in harm's way, missions expand and working families get a knock on the door that changes their lives forever. "The cost of this war will not just be measured by dollars spent, but in lives lost, bodies broken and conflicts that rarely stay where they stay confined to where they began with that." |
