Duckworth Says She’ll Oppose NDAA Without Amendment To End Trump’s Iran War

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) announced she will vote against the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 (NDAA) unless her amendment to end President Donald Trump’s illegal war against Iran is included. Specifically, Duckworth’s amendment would halt additional funding for offensive operations against Iran—while still allowing for self-defense, defense of allies and intelligence gathering—until the American people authorize this war through their Representatives in Congress, as the Constitution requires. The amendment would also withhold travel funding for the Secretary of Defense until the Department of Defense produces a report on the impact this illegal war has had on military readiness and our nation’s wounded servicemembers. Last month, Senate Republicans on the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) blocked Duckworth’s amendments that aimed to end hostilities and hold Trump accountable for his unjustified war.

“The Senate cannot authorize $1.14 trillion in defense spending—the largest defense budget ever proposed in our nation’s history—for Donald Trump to continue his illegal and disastrous war that Americans do not want.

“15 of our servicemembers have been killed, billions of dollars have been wasted and our economy is in tatters. Meanwhile, Trump brags that he doesn’t even think about Americans’ financial situation as he tries to hand Iran hundreds of billions of dollars. The President wants to rebuild Iran before he rebuilds America, and it’s outrageous that Republicans are willing to roll over and let him.

“Simply throwing more money at an out-of-control military operation is not strategy. It’s a recipe for a forever war. The stakes couldn’t be higher, and I cannot support a defense authorization bill that doesn’t include my amendment to end this illegal war.”

Duckworth has been an outspoken critic of Trump’s illegal, needless war in Iran since it began. She is one of the Senate Six—the original group of Senators who have been forcing votes on War Powers Resolutions that would cease hostilities in Iran, which Republicans have shamefully blocked nine times.

Ahead of the Senate’s vote on her own War Powers resolution in April, Duckworth gave impassioned remarks drawing on her personal experience serving in our nation’s last war of choice in the Middle East, imploring Republicans to remember their oaths and vote to help rein in this unhinged President—which they did not.

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