Chris Van Hollen

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.

He's done exactly the opposite.

It was a complete and total lie, Ali.

And, you know, the president himself, you know, told the country last year that he had decimated Iran's nuclear enrichment program, obliterated it.

And then his DNI, Tulsi Gabbard, testified publicly the other day that Iran has made no effort to try to reconstitute Iran.

that nuclear enrichment program.

And so that was just a complete and total lie.