‘Oh, come on!’ Senate Dem pushes back on CNN after being hit for opposing Trump’s ‘war’

Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut offered immediate push back on Sunday when CNN anchor Jake Tapper said a vote against an expected $50 billion request by President Donald Trump to fund his attack on Iran would be seen as “voting against the troops.”

“Oh come on,” said Murphy, incredulous. “I mean, the American people don’t want this war. They don’t want this war—they have seen what happens when American troops go into places like Iraq, places like Afghanistan. Ultimately we get a lot of people killed, we waste a lot of dollars. The one thing the people of the American people have been clear about is that they don’t want the United States dragged into another long-term war in the Middle East.”

Polling has shown that Murphy is correct, with only one out of four people—a mere 25%—in a Reuters/Ipsos poll released last week showing any kind of support for Trump’s war of choice against Iran.

“If you support the troops,” said Murphy, “then you should vote against this war so that we get our troops out of harm’s way. Virtually nothing good happened from sending thousands of Americans to die in Iraq in the 2000s and if we don’t learn that lesson then shame on every single one of us.”

Trump has yet to make the formal request for the $50 billion in funding, but estimates for just one week of fighting have put the cost of the military operations thus far at something close to $1 billion per day.

Murphy has said he is a “hell no” on any additional funding and other members of the Democratic caucus have echoed that message.

“Trump is already spending $1 BILLION PER DAY on his illegal regime change war of choice in Iran,” said Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) on Thursday. “Now, he’s going to ask Congress to give him up to $50 BILLION MORE. My vote: hell NO.”

“We could be lowering the cost of health care, but instead Trump is spending BILLIONS on his reckless war with Iran,” said Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) on Thursday. “Trump is blowing YOUR taxpayer dollars on war and causing gas prices to spike while he’s at it.”