On a telephone town hall, an elderly constituent asked Mackenzie his stance on spending $87 billion on the Iran war while Social Security's trust fund runs dry. He talked about protecting seniors and modernizing the military, and never said where he stands on the war. Hours later he voted against pulling U.S. forces out of Iran.
AIPAC and its allies spent $8 million to take out a sitting Republican congressman who wouldn't fall in line. Here's how a lobby funded by a few billionaires came to own both parties' votes on war and peace.
The Pentagon now says at least 624 U.S. service members have been wounded in Trump's Iran war — and it keeps quietly rearranging the numbers so no one can follow along.
He voted against pulling U.S. troops out of the Iran war, sponsored a bill to bring back the coal industry's advisory council, and the top name on his donor list is a crypto firm whose billionaire founders gave him $24,000.
On July 23 the House voted 214-208 to order U.S. forces out of Trump's unauthorized war with Iran. These 185 Republicans we track voted no — the second time the House has told the president to stop, and the second time they tried to stop it from saying so.
Rep. Lloyd Smucker cast a 216-214 vote for a budget plan that fast-tracks the SAVE America Act's voting restrictions and $73 billion more for the war with Iran — calling it 'a great bill.'
As American service members died in the Iran war he supports, Rep. Carlos Gimenez shrugged on CNN: 'That's the nature of warfare; we will have some casualties.'
The Pentagon's website said 18 U.S. troops had died in the Iran war. A day later it said 14. This is the war Republicans let Trump wage with no vote.
As U.S. forces resume fighting in Iran, House Republicans are embracing a legal theory that lets Trump keep the war going without a vote in Congress.
