WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth issued the following press release:
Combat Veteran and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) today pressed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Chairman to the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine on the Administration's horrific lack of strategy and continued recklessness in Donald Trump's unjustified war of choice in Iran that has resulted in higher costs, left 14 servicemembers dead and hundreds more wounded. During the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) hearing, Duckworth grilled Hegseth and Caine for creating and bungling the crisis of Iran's entirely predictable closure of the Strait of Hormuz-which has raised the average price of a gallon of gas for American families by more than ...