FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Saturday, January 28, 2026
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Louisville, KY — I wholly condemn Donald Trump engaging in another illegal and unconstitutional Presidential War, and I urge Congress to return immediately to vote to halt this recklessness. Trump’s unilateral actions constitute an act of war without authorization, and he has lied to the American people to justify it. He should be impeached.
Trump has lawlessly and recklessly pulled us into war with Iran that will have devastating consequences. He has done so without the authorization of Congress, without public debate, and without seemingly any regard for what it will mean for the families of our brave servicemembers in Kentucky and across the country.
Trump ripped up a hard-won diplomatic agreement that prevented Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. Now we are going to war with Iran to prevent it from getting a nuclear weapon. Whatever progress Iran made toward developing nuclear capacity is the direct result of Trump’s childish and uninformed approach to foreign policy. Now he’s willing to sacrifice the lives of U.S. soldiers to bail him out of his incompetence.
There is a reason one man shouldn’t be able to drag the U.S. into these dangerous, endless wars. Congress must reassert its authority of the executive when it comes to matters of war. Not one dollar of funding should be appropriated to this combat. It’s one thing to oppose forever wars. But Congress has the power to end the lawlessness that drags us into them and it must exercise it.
The American people have been lied to before about the reason to go to war in this region of the globe. In 2003, spurred by false claims of weapons of mass destruction, the U.S. invaded Iraq and the result was the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives and violence and instability in the region that led to a sustained global terror threat. This is the price we pay when our leaders lie in order to justify pulling us into neverending conflicts.
The White House told us that Iran’s nuclear program had been “obliterated” the last time Donald Trump, without congressional authorization, bombed Iran. Either they failed or they lied.
The American people deserve answers.
I am calling for an immediate investigation into these claims and into the officials who repeated them. If they knowingly misled the public to justify military action, they must be held accountable and removed from office.
And let me be clear: The President gave a televised address to the nation and justified an unauthorized act of war that conflicts with the justification he is now giving to another unauthorized act of war.
The president is lying to justify unauthorized military action. This is an abuse of power, and he should be impeached.