An Armed Services member who has taken $88,088 from pro-Israel PACs went on Fox Business and called for a ground invasion of a country of 92 million people. Then he voted against ordering American forces out of the war.
On April 7, 2026, Trump threatened to end an entire civilization by 8 p.m. Ohio's Dave Joyce said he doesn't speak to what the president writes on social media, called it hyperbole, and added that Iran 'needed to be stopped' and that we'd 'put this cancer to rest.'
Ken Calvert chairs the House subcommittee that drafts the Defense Department's budget. In the first three months of 2026, as Americans were dying in Trump's Iran war, weapons makers wired more than $200,000 into his campaign account.
Baird's 'No Official Palestine Entry Act' rewrites two 1990s laws so that U.S. funding is cut off from the UN and any of its agencies that give Palestinians anything beyond back-of-the-room observer status. The UN already did that in 2024. Pro-Israel PACs have given him $25,856.
In April he called Trump's 'whole civilization' threat abhorrent and told a Longview Rotary Club that past the 60-day mark, Congress would have to weigh in. In June and July, Congress did — and Moran voted against it both times.
Stutzman asked Israel's ambassador whether his plan was a direction 'you guys would be comfortable with,' put a draft in front of Netanyahu in Jerusalem, and introduced it in the House a week later — attaching Netanyahu's letter of support to his own press release.
On the day the Iran war started, Rutherford's official House statement misspelled the operation's name three times and said the regime 'must be obliterated.' Within hours the page was silently renamed. Congress never voted on any of it.
'We need to wind down the conflict, I've publicly said that,' LaHood told WCBU on May 4, 2026. On June 3 the House voted 215-208 to order U.S. forces out of the Iran war. He voted no. His explanation five days later: 'Essentially there's been nothing that's happened militarily within the last 30 days.'
Trump threatened to make a whole civilization die. Iran's UN representative called it incitement to war crimes. Pope Leo XIV called it truly unacceptable. Higgins posted an image of a knight with a flaming sword and told the president to hit harder.