{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://morrison.house.gov/media/press-releases/us-rep-kelly-morrison-cosponsors-bill-block-iran-war-funding", "U.S. Rep. Kelly Morrison Cosponsors Bill to Block Iran War Funding", "2026-07-14", "2026", "2026-07", "Democrat", "House", "MN", "Kelly Morrison", "M001234", "morrison.house.gov", "morrison", "https://morrison.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 Today, after Donald Trump escalated his war with Iran, U.S. Representative Kelly Morrison (MN-03) announced her cosponsorship of the No Funds for Iran War Act, which would prohibit any taxpayer dollars from being used for military action against Iran.\n\nNow, the Trump Administration is asking for billions more in taxpayer dollars to fund the war in Iran \u2014 even though the war is increasingly unpopular with the majority of Americans.\n\nThe No Funds for Iran War Act was introduced by Representative Pat Ryan (NY-18), a combat veteran, and cosponsored by 37 House Democrats, including 14 veterans. Representative Morrison is a proud member of the House Veterans\u2019 Affairs Committee.\n\nUnder Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution, only Congress has the power to declare war. Since launching the first attack on Iran in February of this year, President Trump has neither sought nor received Congressional authorization for this war. Representative Morrison has been staunchly opposed to this illegal war and has voted for every War Powers Resolution to end the war. A member of the House Small Business Committee, Representative Morrison met with Minnesotan small business owners this spring who told her that rising prices due to the war in Iran pose an existential threat to their businesses.\n\n\u201cGrocery prices are rising. Gas prices are rising. Half of Americans can\u2019t afford health insurance. But instead of doing anything to address these problems or make life better for the American people, the President has dragged us into another costly, illegal, and foreign war and refuses to get us out of it,\u201d said Congresswoman Kelly Morrison. \u201cI\u2019m cosponsoring the No Funds for Iran War Act to block the President from spending any more taxpayer dollars on this illegal war that\u2019s deeply unpopular and increasingly reckless. Not one dollar more for this illegal war that the American people don\u2019t want but are being forced to pay for.\u201d\n\nRepresentative Morrison spoke on the House floor this morning, calling out Trump\u2019s reckless actions that have dragged the United States into another costly, foreign war, costing taxpayers billions while doing nothing to make life more affordable for the American people.\n\nWatch Rep. Morrison\u2019s full speech HERE.\n\nImage\n\nRead a transcript of Rep. Morrison\u2019s remarks below:\n\nMadam Speaker, today I rise against the Trump Administration's reckless, costly, and illegal war in Iran.\n\nIn just the last 24 hours, President Trump\u2019s \u201cdeal\u201d has collapsed yet again, tensions have escalated, blockades have been reinstated, and strikes have resumed.\n\nPresident Trump has informed the nation that we are once again at war with Iran \u2013 an illegal war that no one asked for, no one wanted, and yet every American is paying the price for.\n\nDonald Trump is backing the United States into a corner \u2013 and the worst part about it is that he has no plan to get us out.\n\nHis strategy is to bomb first, think later.\n\nHe\u2019s sacrificing our economy\u2026 our security\u2026 our standing in the world \u2013 and for what?\n\n1 in 2 Americans can\u2019t afford health insurance.\n\nFood, housing, and child care costs are astronomical.\n\nInflation is at a three-year high and the cost of gas, groceries, and everything in between is going up.\n\nPresident Trump was elected to office on the promise of lowering costs and ending unwinnable wars overseas.\n\nAnd yet here we are.\n\nAnd now he is demanding that taxpayers pay hundreds of billions of dollars to fund his new endless, costly, illegal war in Iran.\n\nThe American people deserve so much better from their President.\n\nWhen Donald Trump first got us into this war, he said it would last about 4-6 weeks.\n\nWell now it\u2019s been 20.\n\nOver the last five months, the Trump Administration has spent more than $100 billion dollars on their illegal war on the other side of the world.\n\nDo you know what $100 billion could fund here at home?\n\nChild care for 7 million children.\n\nHealth care for 10 million people.\n\nFood assistance for 45 million Americans.\n\nThese aren\u2019t just arbitrary numbers.\n\nTrump\u2019s actions have real impacts. And real costs. On real people\u2019s lives.\n\nAnd let\u2019s not forget, this comes as Trump made the single largest cut to health care and food assistance in our nation\u2019s history last year.\n\nAfter millions of Americans have lost their health insurance and families are struggling to feed their children, President Trump is demanding that taxpayers send hundreds of billions of dollars to fight a foreign war overseas.\n\nOf course President Trump has literally told us time and time again that he does not care about the American people.\n\nWell he may not care \u2013 but the elected officials in this chamber should.\n\nIt is literally our job to do what\u2019s best for our constituents.\n\nWe cannot stand by and watch President Trump drag us into yet another mess \u2013 especially when it\u2019s at the expense of Americans every. Single. Time.\n\nAnd let\u2019s just step back for a moment here and ask the question: why are we even in this war?\n\nThis Administration still can\u2019t give us a good answer. No explanation. No reason. No strategy. No endgame.\n\nAs an American\u2026 as a patriot\u2026 as the wife of an Army combat veteran, I am outraged.\n\nWhen you make the decision to send American soldiers into harm's way, you better have a damn good reason for it and you better know what you\u2019re doing.\n\nWe have neither \u2013 and this Administration continues to recklessly put our troops\u2019 lives on the line without care or cause.\n\nIt\u2019s shameful.\n\nThat\u2019s why I\u2019m joining my colleague and combat veteran Representative Pat Ryan in fighting to end this reckless war and reassert our Congressional authority over war-making powers.\n\nMadam Speaker, we need to pass the No Funds for Iran War Act and stop any taxpayer dollars from being used for military action against Iran.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress, which are Republican-controlled, I might add, have passed War Powers Resolutions to end the Iran War \u2013 but there needs to be more.\n\nPresident Trump thinks he\u2019s above the law \u2013 but he is not.\n\nAnd it is up to the Republican majorities in Congress to stop him.\n\nIt is their Constitutional duty.\n\nTo put the American people, our national security, our economy, above a single president\u2019s self-serving war of choice.\n\nTo my Republican colleagues, I plead: What is your line? When will you put the American people first and stop this war?\n\nWe are not powerless. We can end this war.\n\nI implore my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to listen to the American people, find their courage, and end this war.\n\nMadam Speaker, I yield back.\n\n###", 1, "2026-07-15T07:12:08Z", "2026-07-15T07:13:45Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://morrison.house.gov/media/press-releases/us-rep-kelly-morrison-cosponsors-bill-block-iran-war-funding"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8287089876830578, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}