Far Left Plots Shutdown Over Iran War

Several far-Left U.S. Senators are threatening to shut down the Senate floor unless Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (and others) testify about the war with Iran.

As reported by The Hill:

A group of Senate Democrats are threatening to use every procedural tool at their disposal to hold up business on the Senate floor unless Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and other senior officials testify before key committees under oath on the military conflict with Iran.

“We have collectively agreed that we’re going to use the levers that we have,” Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said Monday evening. “We should be having hearings on the biggest military engagement since the war in Afghanistan.”

“Each individual senator has a tremendous amount of power to disrupt the normal functioning of the Senate as well as certain privileges that we can exercise, and what we have agreed right now is that we’re not going to let the Senate continue business as usual, which seems to be ignoring the urgent issues the American people are dealing with,” he said.

The Democrats want to grill Rubio and Hegseth in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Senate Armed Services Committee over the expected duration of the conflict, its cost, the lack of a clear endgame, and the lack of clear rules of engagement amid growing civilian casualties, including an estimated 170 people killed by a missile strike on a girls’ school in southern Iran.

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, have asked the GOP chairs of those panels to hold hearings and ask Trump Cabinet officials to testify.

In other words, a group of far-Left Senators is forcing hearings with top members of the Trump Administration about the military operation currently underway, where they can grandstand in front of news cameras and attempt to make it look like the Trump Administration did something illegal.

Now here’s the thing they don’t want you to know: Those hearings will almost certainly happen anyway. That’s how congressional oversight works. This is all political gameplay from the far Left – “sound and fury, signifying nothing,” as it were. Cabinet secretaries regularly testify before committees like the House Armed Services Committee and Foreign Relations Committee. It’s part of the process. There’s really no world in which these officials don’t eventually appear before Congress to answer questions about the operation. It’s just a question of when. But now these far-Left Senators have positioned themselves early enough that when the hearings do take place, they can say, “See, we made this happen!”

According to the ever-attention-seeking Senator Booker (NJ), the strategy is straightforward. Individual Senators have procedural tools that can slow or stop Senate activity, and this group plans to use them.

As Booker put it, “We’re not going to let the Senate go on with business as usual” until hearings are scheduled. In other words, they are openly acknowledging that this is a deliberate stall tactic. Meanwhile, they continue to get paid without actually having to do their jobs, under the auspice of “standing up for democracy” or whatever cliché they’ll give us in the next media soundbite.

That’s another reason why this push feels less about information and transparency and more about political – and media – optics. If the goal were simply to secure testimony, Senators could work with committee chairs to schedule hearings. While this drama is unfolding in the Senate, the Department of Homeland Security remains unfunded due to an ongoing funding standoff during a moment of heightened global tension. Seems like a bad idea, especially with a critical midterm looming on the horizon.

Reports indicate that U.S. intelligence is monitoring encrypted communications originating from Iran that could potentially signal activity by terror-linked networks abroad. Law enforcement and security agencies are on high alert. And let’s be honest, we’ve already seen multiple incidents in just the last few days that illustrate the tension: airport disruptions, diverted flights, and arrests tied to extremist threats. One would think this would be precisely the moment when Congress should be ensuring that national security agencies are fully operational.

Instead, the Senate may grind to a halt.

Today’s Sekulow broadcast included more analysis of the group of far-Left Senators holding up Senate business until they get their way. We were also joined by ACLJ Senior Counsel CeCe Heil, who gave us an urgent update on a major case involving our team on the ground in Pakistan defending another persecuted Christian.

Watch the full broadcast below: