In politics the best problems are the ones that never go away. Congress thrives on forever threats: our “broken” immigration system, a tax code that’s insanely complex and just as broken, looming Social Security and Medicare insolvency, and congressional ethics issues like insider trading, earmarks, and term limits.
Funding our exploding federal budget is another forever threat. When Trump tapped Elon Musk to spearhead a much-needed Department of Government Efficiency, furious lawmakers who for years eschewed responsible oversight and allowed lavish spending abuses on our dime knowing they can always come back to the taxpayer trough for more demanded the White House keep its hands off their money. They prefer to keep Americans on the hook with the forever threat of going broke instead of doing something to fix the problem.
Trump ends a favorite forever threat and lawmakers aren’t happy about it
Last night President Trump took decisive action to address another forever threat especially popular among Democrats. After he took out Iranian nuclear facilities with an unannounced bunker buster attack, lawmakers who sat on their hands doing nothing and worse, endorsed Obama and Biden’s disastrous appeasement strategy are angry they weren’t handed the decision on military action.
Radical Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), who was censured in November 2023 for her antisemitic, anti-Israel remarks, spared Iran and instead attacked Trump and Israeli PM Netanyahu:
President Trump sending U.S. troops to bomb Iran without the consent of Congress is a blatant violation of our Constitution. The American people do not want another forever war. We have seen where decades of endless war in the Middle East gets us—all based on the lie of ‘weapons of mass destruction.’ We are not falling for it again.
Instead of listening to the American people, Trump is listening to War Criminal Netanyahu, who lied about Iraq and is lying once again about Iran. Congress must act immediately to exert its war powers and stop this unconstitutional act of war.1
She posted her press release the same night as the bombing, so her assessment that Trump’s move to end this forever threat is “disastrous” is divisive partisan speculation at best, though I have little doubt that disaster is the outcome Democrats and pro-Palestinian activist Tlaib hope for.
Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) made a similar threat assessment. He claimed a “dramatically increased” risk of war and then made three astonishingly ill-informed statements:
First, the Trump administration bears the heavy burden of explaining to the American people why this military action was undertaken. Second, Congress must be fully and immediately briefed in a classified setting. Third, Donald Trump shoulders complete and total responsibility for any adverse consequences that flow from his unilateral military action.2
Let’s be clear:
First: Trump told us immediately after the bombing why the action was undertaken, though most of us already knew because unlike Biden, this is one of the most transparent presidents in recent history.
Second: of course Congress will be briefed, but let’s be honest. Jeffries and his colleagues know why Trump did what he did. They will leak any “classified” briefing information they think will benefit them the moment the meeting ends and the cameras start flashing.
Third: unlike Biden, the buck stops with Trump. Taking responsibility is not the issue. The issue is Congress’s failure to take responsibility to deal with this situation going back to Barack Obama’s Iran Deal and Joe Biden’s stupidly ill-informed decision to fund the Mullahs after Trump cut off their resources during his first administration.
By tomorrow we’ll no doubt hear about a new Democrat impeachment effort to punish Trump for taking away a valuable forever threat that has served them well since 2016. Sitting on their hands and fighting with Republicans who often seem just as eager to do nothing to put an end to forever threats is what congressional lawmakers do best. Trump just took away the neverending threat of a nuclear Iran and their furious response is just getting started.
Sources
1“Tlaib Denounces Trump’s Disastrous, Unconstitutional Bombing of Iran.” Rashida Tlaib. June 21, 2025. https://tlaib.house.gov/posts/tlaib-denounces-trumps-disastrous-unconstitutional-bombing-of-iran, retrieved June 22, 2025.
2“Leader Jeffries Statement on Trump’s Unilateral Military Action in Iran.” Hakeem Jeffries. Democratic Leader. June 21, 2025. https://democraticleader.house.gov/media/press-releases/leader-jeffries-statement-trumps-unilateral-military-action-iran, retrieved June 22, 2025.
*“The Historic Deal that Will Prevent Iran from Acquiring a Nuclear Weapon.” The White House. President Barack Obama. https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/node/328996, retrieved June 22, 2025.
**Ibid.
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