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Elizabeth Warren: “Trump's war with Iran means gas prices are skyrocketing for…”

Featuring: Elizabeth Warren, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Massachusetts

SAVE Act: Warren Fights Back Against "Jim Crow 2.0," Slams Trump's Reckless War in Iran

Published March 18, 2026 | Video Starts at 16:20

That's where about one fifth of the world's oil and natural gas supply comes through. And right now, it's all bottled up. So what does that mean? Trump's war with Iran means gas prices are skyrocketing for American families. here at home. And Donald Trump's response? If they rise, they rise. In other words, he just doesn't care. Here's another one. Food prices. (16:20–16:27)

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Asserts that Trump's actions in Iran are causing gas prices to rise significantly.

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“If this bill passes, then in 45 of the 50 states, your driver's license won't count as a valid ID.”
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“Voter roll audits in Georgia prior to the 2024 election found only 20 registered non-citizens out of 8.2 million registered voters.”
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“A 2024 Michigan audit found only 16 non-citizen votes out of 5.7 million votes.”
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“The US is spending at least a billion dollars a day on war with Iran.”
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“In just the first six days of the war, the Trump administration spent an estimated $11.3 billion.”
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“About a third of the world's fertilizer goes through [the Strait of Hormuz].”
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“Fewer than half of all Americans have a passport, and it costs $165 to get one.”
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“Already at least 200 American service members have been hurt. Thirteen service members have lost their lives.”
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“$11.3 billion. The estimated cost of the first six days of Trump's war.”
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“We also lost three F15 aircraft in just those first few days. That will cost us another $300 million.”
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“Estimates say that the Trump administration has kept burning about a billion dollars taxpayer dollars a day on the war in Iran.”
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“Some estimates look more like $2 billion a day.”
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“$5.6 billion. The cost of munitions spent by the Pentagon in the first two days of the war.”
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“$50 billion. How much the Trump administration says it wants to add to an already massively inflated defense budget to pay for a war that…”
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“$1 trillion. The Pentagon's budget this year.”
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“One and a half trillion dollars. The total amount that Trump is reportedly requesting for the Pentagon budget for next year.”
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“The Trump administration will spend $30 billion in just the first 30 days of the war.”
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“$12 billion is what it would cost to restore the expanded child tax credit for one year.”
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“In less than two weeks of Donald Trump's war, we spent the same amount of money that would have lifted millions of kids out of poverty.”
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“We could have provided housing assistance for around a million Americans.”
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“We could have lowered prescription drug costs for tens of millions of people.”
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“We could have paid the entire National Park Service for more than three years.”
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“We could have given Pell grants to 1.6 million students so they could afford to go to college.”
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“We could have provided retirement and disability pay for veterans wounded in combat and still had plenty of money left over.”
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“We could have helped pay the salaries of more than 100,000 teachers and nurses.”
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“We could have funded Direct File, the program that lets Americans file their taxes online and for free, for two whole decades.”
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“We could have provided humanitarian assistance for countries around the world for almost three full years.”
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“The federal government didn't invest in roads and bridges, we just wouldn't have them. And that's what's happening with child care.”
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“We need to invest in universal childcare and raise wages for childcare workers.”
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“Childcare workers should at least make the same amount as local public school teachers.”
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“Access to affordable, high quality childcare and early childhood education should be a right.”
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“Donald Trump is spending billions of dollars a week bombing Iran for reasons he cannot explain.”
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“The average price for gas is more than $3.70 a gallon, more than 80 cents higher per gallon than just one month ago.”
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“Gas prices have not jumped this much since Russia attacked Ukraine.”
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“Fertilizer prices jumped up by 30% in the days after Trump started this war.”
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“Diesel prices are already up by more than 25%, raising the cost of shipping goods.”
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“Jet fuel prices have shot up by 58% since Trump started the war.”
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“Airlines are passing these costs on to consumers by pushing ticket prices up even higher.”
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“Donald Trump's war with Iran is gearing up to become another forever war.”
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“The American people do not want and did not ask for [this war], but they're the ones who are footing the bill.”
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“Higher costs for American families are the last of the concerns for the Trump administration.”
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“Trump said the war would be over in four, five weeks. Okay, that was three weeks ago.”
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“Trump called the attacks, quote, major combat operations in Iran.”
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“Trump called it, quote, short term excursion that we're, quote, getting very close to finishing.”
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“Trump told the American people he had to attack Iran because Iran posed an imminent threat based on their nuclear capabilities.”
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“Trump bombed Iran and claimed that Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities had been completely and totally obliterated.”
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“The United States had a deal that could have prevented Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. That was President Obama's nuclear deal with…”
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“Trump ripped up that deal. And here's the best part. Got nothing. Nothing in return.”
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“A preliminary investigation by the Department of Defense confirmed that it is likely that it was our own military that bombed a girls school…”
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“175 people were killed. Most of them were children.”
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“Trump said over and over that the attack was done by Iran.”
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“Pete Hegseth gutted the office that was in charge of preventing civilian harm.”
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“Hegseth is also purging the military's legal experts, the people who act as legal guardrails.”
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“Hegseth ordered a, quote, ruthless overhaul to make sure that no one else who might question him is left standing.”
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“Working families are struggling to pay for basic needs like groceries, housing, health care, electricity.”
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“Prices are shooting up even higher because of Donald Trump's new war in Iran.”
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“Donald Trump's dangerous actions overseas are making everyday life both more expensive and regular.”
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“Trump and the Republicans are working to keep as many Americans from voting as humanly possible.”
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“That's what this bill is really about.”
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