Schatz Presses Secretary Hegseth On Failure To Achieve Trump’s Iran War Goals

WASHINGTON – During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on a supplemental budget request, U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i) pressed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on the Trump administration’s failure to meet the goals it set out at the beginning of the war in Iran, including regime change and destroying Iran’s nuclear capabilities. “I go back to the original five objectives. And none of them have been met. Some of them have changed, but none of them have been met,” said Senator Schatz. “About 190,000 people in the state of Hawai‘i, believe it or not, voted for Donald Trump. And I know a lot of them, and I represent all of them. And one of the reasons that they were enthusiastic about Donald Trump and you, Mr. Secretary, was they thought that we were going to have a new foreign policy,” said Senator Schatz. “People were pretty thrilled about the idea that America First, in their mind, meant that we were going to not do this kind of adventurism.” Video of Senator Schatz’s exchange with Secretary Hegseth is available here . ###