Jason Crow

For me, this is about accountability, right?

We spent over 20 years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

We spent trillions of taxpayer dollars, thousands of American lives, tens of thousands of others who bear the visible and invisible scars and burdens of those wars.

They ended poorly.

And that's, I think, because we stopped debating it.

We financed it with debt.

There weren't votes.

There wasn't an accountability loop.

And that continues today.

Thanks, Rachel.

Yeah, well, here we go again, as you just pointed out.

I learned about this when I woke up and opened up my phone and looked at Twitter, right, which has its own set of problems, the fact that Congress wasn't engaged and involved.

But listen, my statement, I think, captures the sentiment of

tens of millions of working class Americans who have seen 20 years of endless conflict, trillions of dollars spent, thousands of American lives.

And you know who wins?

The defense companies win, the oil companies win, the elites and the billionaires win, and the working class folks.

that I grew up with, that I went to war with, we're left holding the bag.

And this is the same thing, right?

Over and over again.

And how magnanimous of Donald Trump to get up there last night and say, you know, tough stuff happens in war and maybe there are gonna be some Americans that will die, but that's a cost I'm willing to take.