WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (MA-5) joined NPR’s Morning Edition, where she discussed House Democrats’ successful passage of a War Powers Resolution — a key step toward ending Trump’s reckless war of choice in Iran that is driving up costs for working families. Below are excerpts from the conversation:

On Passage of House Democrats’ War Powers Resolution:

“Yesterday, we showed that when we are united as Democrats, we can score some victories. But almost 100 days into this war, the fact that we could only get 4 out of the 218 House Republicans to join us in the War Powers Resolution is pretty shocking, because they’re having the same conversations that I’m having at home.

“People are facing skyrocketing gas costs because of this war — and still no explanation of why we are there, and how we determine that we have had victory, and what’s the strategy for getting us there?”

On the Message Democrats’ War Powers Resolution Sends:

“It is showing that we are listening to the American people, who are telling us they don’t want this war. It’s cost them $50 billion in tax dollars to support it, 13 service members have been killed, hundreds injured. And it’s made everything more expensive.

“It is a statement to the president, to the State Department, to the Department of Defense that we need to end this war.

“We should never have been put in this position. The American people are paying the price for this war of choice by Donald Trump, without a strategy for actually accomplishing anything.”

On the Harmful Consequences of Trump’s War:

“It absolutely has left us in a worse position because we have seen Iran, for the first time, use the Strait of Hormuz as a weapon — to shut it down and effectively increase costs around the globe. Not only of gas, but of fertilizer and other products that are going to end up costing American families more. And they’re the only ones paying the price for this war, working families.

“So, this is a signal to the White House to say: You have to bring this war to an end.

“And all of this … all of the service members we’ve lost and who’ve been injured, the pain [of] working families and again, for what? We are nowhere closer to making sure that Iran never gets a nuclear weapon, which is a shared goal.”

On Bill Pulte’s Nomination Impacting FISA Reauthorization:

“Trump, once again, has jammed down the throats of the American people and of Congress, a nominee for a very strategic and important position who has no time in the military, no time in Congress, no time in the diplomatic corps, no experience in law enforcement.
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“I think it is going to be very difficult at this point to round up Democratic votes in the House. We have been working for months to say: Come together, there’s a bipartisan solution that we can address concerns over this program while we acknowledge that we need a program like this to keep Americans safe.

“But it’s not a binary choice. And they have refused to come together and put in some assurances for the American people about the use of the FISA program against Americans.”

Listen to the full interview, HERE.

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