Top Dem Is Painfully Clear About Who Will Pay The Price For War On Iran - And It Won't Be Trump And Company [View all]

Source: Huff Post

Mar 1, 2026, 04:33 PM EST | Updated 2 hours ago



Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) was blunt about which Americans will pay the ultimate price for the United States’ quest for regime change in Iran during a scathing Sunday morning appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” Following the U.S. and Israel’s initiation of joint combat operations early Saturday, Murphy accused President Donald Trump of risking the lives of American soldiers for a war the “nobody in this country is asking for.”

“It won’t be the billionaire children of Donald Trump and his buddies that die,” Murphy told Margaret Brennan. “It’s going to be the children of middle class and poor families all across this country that are gonna die for a war of choice, a war of vanity, an illegal war.”

Trump seemed nonchalant about the possibilities of American casualties as he addressed military action against Iran in an eight-minute video posted to Truth Social on Saturday morning.

“The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties, that often happens in war,” he said of the operations, which U.S. Central Command said had killed three U.S. troops and “seriously wounded” five others in a statement on Sunday.

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The billionaires’ kids will pay no price. But American kids have already died for a war of vanity and choice. A war that will result in hardline leadership remaining in Iran and no meaningful impact on their nuclear program. A likely moral and strategic disaster.

— Chris Murphy (@chrismurphyct.bsky.social) 2026-03-01T19:01:31.994Z

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