Chris Van Hollen

Well, Ali, that's right.

And we should all remember that during the campaign, candidate Donald Trump promised that he would keep us out of foreign wars and focus instead on trying to make things better right here at home.

Instead, he is, along with Prime Minister Netanyahu, started a

a foreign war, prices are going up.

And now he says, well, we've got to pay for this war in Iran by cutting back on federal investments.

You played the clip with childcare, but there are also other points in that speech where he talks about cutting Medicaid, cutting Medicare.

So the bottom line is the president who said he wouldn't start a war now wants to pay for it by cutting deeply into American health care programs and other programs that help American families here at home.

Well, that's that's exactly right.

I mean, you've got defense contractors who are going to be raking it in and other folks who are close to the president are going to be raking it in.

But the American people will suffer.

And of course, this comes on top of what Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington did last year.

Right.

They passed their so-called big, beautiful bill, which was beautiful.

If you're a billionaire, you've got really big tax cuts.

But to partially pay for that, they cut Medicaid, they cut food and nutrition programs.

So now comes this year and Donald Trump goes off and starts a war and says, well, we're going to have to cut back on Medicare.

We're going to have to cut back on Medicaid.

We're going to have to cut back on our efforts to make child care more affordable.

So at the end of the day, he is screwing the American people and doing exactly what he said he was going to avoid.

He said he was going to focus on things here at home, keep us out of foreign wars.