Sen. Van Hollen: Hegseth Is ‘Trying to Deceive the American People’ by Declaring Victory, ‘We’re Less Safe Today’

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VAN HOLLEN: “Pete Hegseth is, once again, blowing smoke, trying to deceive the American people. Look, there's no doubt that we are worse off today than when Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu started this war. The Strait of Hormuz was open then. Now Iran has clearly established that it can control the strait and is even talking about charging tolls. We have a regime in Iran that is more radical, more extreme, more hardline than the one before. And Donald Trump, in his post yesterday, said that we're going to be working off Iran's 10-point plan going forward. We, of course, have lost 13 service members, hundreds wounded, thousands of civilians in the region. We are less safe today than when this war started, and we are worse off. This has been a complete and total disaster, costing the American taxpayers billions of dollars per day, and, of course, disrupting our economy.”