March 6, 2026
On House Floor, Pressley Condemns Trump’s War in Iran, Makes Urgent Plea to Stop War, Consider Troops and Defenseless Children
“When a nation loses care and concern for children, all the children, a nation becomes irredeemable.”
WASHINGTON – Yesterday, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) delivered a powerful speech on the House floor condemning Donald Trump waging an endless war in Iran with no regard for human life. Rep. Pressley made an appeal to Trump and her colleagues to stop this war, spare the servicemembers and Iranian children who stand to be harmed, and consider the lives already lost in the U.S. and Israeli governments’ attacks.
Rep. Pressley’s speech follows her YES vote in favor of the War Powers Resolution to stop Trump’s war in Iran and affirm the constitutional power of Congress to authorize a war.
A transcript of Congresswoman Pressley’s remarks is available below, and the video is available here.
Transcript: On House Floor, Pressley Condemns Trump’s War in Iran, Makes Urgent Plea to Stop War, Consider Troops and Defenseless Children
U.S. House of Representatives
March 5, 2026Mr. Speaker, I rise on behalf of the grieving families of the service members killed.
I rise on behalf of the little girls in Iran killed by bombs raining down on their schools.
Constituents in my district are horrified to see the United States and Israel launch a war with Iran that has already spread to a dozen more countries.
Parents are clutching their young sons as they remember stories from their grandparents about the boys sacrificed to the draft.
They see the baby girls in Iran, their small bodies decimated, as their own daughters.
Mr. Speaker, I implore my colleagues – when a nation loses care and concern for children, all the children, a nation becomes irredeemable.
The children of the world are all of ours, always.
Small men wage endless wars because they are looking to profit.
They believe their privilege and connections will shelter their own children from the frontline horrors of war.
But our destinies are tied, Mr. Speaker.
We rise and fall together.
Trump has no plan of how many lives will be sacrificed before it is enough.
We will not tolerate his callous disregard for human life.
End this war now.
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