Washington Reporter: 30 GOP lawmakers explain why they support Trump's moves to dismantle Iran's nuclear program
House and Senate Republicans sent President Donald Trump an unequivocal message during his first trip abroad: stay the course with his hardline anti-nuclear Iran policy.
Every Senate Republican except for Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) signed on to a letter led by Sens. Pete Ricketts (R., Neb.) and Ted Cruz (R., Texas.) and almost every House Republican signed a letter led by Rep. August Pfluger (R., Texas), the chairman of the Republican Study Committee (RSC), that urged Trump to “permanently eliminate” the ability for the “Iranian regime” to “enrich uranium.”
"I'm heartened that this letter conveyed the nearly universal consensus within the Republican Party that we support the President's efforts to diplomatically secure the complete dismantlement of Iran's nuclear capabilities,” Cruz told the Washington Reporter. “The President has been clear about this red line and that dismantlement is a prerequisite to any verifiable deal. This letter unequivocally signals that Republican lawmakers understand that position and necessity.”
Thirty House and Senate Republicans exclusively told the Washington Reporter why they signed on to the letters.
The signatories represent the full spectrum of the Republican Party, and send a message that Republicans in Congress are united behind President Trump’s red line that Iran cannot have any nuclear enrichment capability in any deal.
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Trump’s policies also found support from both longtime lawmakers and from freshmen, who signed on to the RSC-led letter. Rep. Tim Walberg (R., Mich.), who chairs the House’s Committee on Education and the Workforce, told the Reporter that he “fully commend[s] President Trump’s efforts to secure a deal to fully dismantle Iran’s nuclear program, which will uphold the security of the American people and our allies around the world.”
“We must hold Iran accountable through a maximum pressure approach and eliminate Iran’s ambitions to obtain nuclear weapons.”
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