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Jon Husted, Andy Biggs and Mike Johnson Now Say Trump's Iran War Should End. Together They Voted 25 Times Not to End It.

Sen. Jon Husted wants the war over 'as quickly as possible.' Rep. Andy Biggs says he doesn't 'support the war, per se.' Speaker Mike Johnson says it's time to 'bring that to a resolution.' Every time Congress voted on ending it, all three voted no.

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Gas and diesel prices keep climbing, and the election is six weeks away. This week, three more Republicans told voters Trump's war with Iran should end.

All three had a vote on ending it. All three kept voting no.

What they said

Jon Husted, the Ohio senator, told Politico on Tuesday, September 22, that "the war needs to come to an end as quickly as possible so that we can lower gas prices." He added: "I don't know anybody that doesn't want the war to come to an end," according to Politico's report.

Andy Biggs, the Arizona congressman running for governor, was asked the same day by Arizona's Family whether he supports the war. "I don't support the war, per se," he said, the station reported. The war, he said, is something that "even as a member of Congress or as a governor, that ends up being outside my reach to deal with."

Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, told a Shreveport TV station that the goal of stopping Iran's nuclear program is "done," and "now we've got to bring that to a resolution," Mediaite reported. He noted that the closed Strait of Hormuz "directly affects gas prices and fuel prices."

What they did

Congress has had a way to end this war the whole time: a war powers resolution ordering U.S. forces out of the fighting. The House has voted on one six times since March — it failed three times by a handful of votes, then passed three times over Republican opposition. The Senate had voted 13 times by early August.

Andy Biggs voted no all six times in the House. He says the war is "outside my reach" even as a member of Congress. As a congressman, it was in his reach six times. The House clerk's records show him voting Nay on March 5, April 16 (lost 213–214), May 14 (a 212–212 tie), June 3, July 23 and September 15.

Mike Johnson voted no all six times, too, on the same six roll calls. Twice the resolution failed by one vote or on a tie — 213–214 and 212–212. On both, the Speaker's no was one of the votes that decided it. The man who now says it's time for a "resolution" helped stop one.

Jon Husted voted no all 13 times the Senate took it up through early August — we counted every one — and he is one of 13 Republican senators we track who voted no every time it mattered. And he isn't changing. Even as he told Politico the war needs to end "as quickly as possible," a spokesperson confirmed he does not plan to support the war powers resolution coming up in the Senate this week.

Add it up: 13 for Husted, six for Biggs, six for Johnson. Twenty-five votes against ending a war they now say should end.

It's the gas prices

Johnson's own words make it plain. On September 15, the day the House took its sixth vote, he said gas and grocery prices would come down once the war entered a "new phase" — and that Trump expects that after the election. Now, with prices still climbing, he wants a resolution.

They're joining a growing list. We've covered Ashley Hinson and Mike Rogers (MI) doing the same thing, and John James and Tom Tiffany. Moody's chief economist puts what the war has cost the average household at about $1,200 in its first six months.

Saying a war should end costs nothing. Voting to end it is the only thing that counts — and it's the thing none of these three has done.

The bottom line

This week Jon Husted, Andy Biggs and Mike Johnson each said Trump's Iran war should wrap up — Husted and Johnson pointing to gas prices. Husted voted 13 times in the Senate against ending it and says he'll vote no again this week; Biggs and Johnson each voted no on all six House resolutions to end it — 25 votes between them.