{"id":91883,"date":"2026-04-30T23:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/91883\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T23:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:03:13","slug":"hegseth-spars-with-senate-democrats-over-war-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/91883\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth Spars With Senate Democrats Over War in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Hegseth Spars With Senate Democrats Over War in Iran<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p>Back<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth Spars With Senate Democrats Over War in IranDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee, facing sharp criticism from Democrats over his handling of the war in Iran and its growing costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u201cThe biggest adversary we face at this point are the reckless naysayers and defeatist words of congressional Democrats and some Republicans. Defeatists from the cheap seats who, two months in, seek to undermine the incredible efforts that have been undertaken and the historic nature of taking on a 47-year threat. With the courage no other president has had to great success and great opportunity for preventing Iran from having a nuclear weapon.\u201d \u201cThe War Powers Resolution specifies that a war initiated by a president without congressional approval must be concluded within 60 days. We\u2019re right at the 60-day deadline. Is the president intending to either seek congressional authorization for the war in Iran, or send us the legally required certification, that he needs an additional 30 days to remove U.S. forces from the war?\u201d \u201cUltimately, I would defer to the White House and White House counsel on that. However, we are in a cease-fire right now, which our understanding means the 60-day clock pauses or stops.\u201d \u201cFirst of all, this war is costing so much money, over $25 billion already, estimates $1 billion a day. And they\u2019re feeling it every single day at the gas pump, with higher prices for both fuel, for diesel, for gasoline for their cars. They\u2019re also feeling it with higher grocery costs.\u201d \u201cThe question I would ask to you and to others is what is the cost of a nuclear-armed Iran? What is the cost to the American people if the world\u2019s most dangerous regime has a nuclear weapon?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaking into a microphone with his finger raised.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/30DC-HEGSETH-cmbl-threeByTwoMediumAt2X.jpg\" data-testid=\"betamax-poster\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"_poster_13tnt_20\"\/>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee, facing sharp criticism from Democrats over his handling of the war in Iran and its growing costs.<\/p>\n<p>By Alisa Shodiyev Kaff<\/p>\n<p>April 30, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"new video loaded: Hegseth Spars With Senate Democrats Over War in Iran transcript Back transcript Hegseth Spars With&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,772,32423,343,5432],"class_list":{"0":"post-91883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-iran","9":"tag-pete-hegseth","10":"tag-senate-committee-on-armed-services","11":"tag-us-military","12":"tag-wararmed-conflicts"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116496158073159810","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}