Chairman Pfluger on Fox Business: Iran's Regime is Crumbling, Democrats are Continually Obstructing

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Republican Study Committee (RSC) Chairman August Pfluger (TX-11) joined Fox Business Network's Maria Bartiromo's Wall Street with a blunt assessment of Operation Epic Fury and a hard push for Reconciliation 2.0. A combat veteran with nearly two decades of Air Force service, Chairman Pfluger called the Iran strikes necessary and well-executed — and on a second reconciliation bill, he was equally direct: Democrats won't vote for anything, the 60-vote threshold is a dead end, and Republicans were elected to do hard things. And we must get them done before November.  

The RSC drafted the roadmap in January for a second reconciliation bill, building a framework around affordability, national security, and undoing four years of Biden-era damage — and Chairman Pfluger made clear today the committee isn't letting up.

Read highlights from Chairman Pfluger below:

On Operation Epic Fury: "This is a regime that for almost 50 years has been sowing chaos throughout the region and throughout the world, and has killed thousands of Americans in that same time period. I myself saw while flying combat missions the weapons that were being moved from Tehran into Lebanon and other places to threaten Israel, to threaten the United States. President Trump made the right decision…I think militarily, it's going very well. The objectives were to destroy their navy, destroy their missiles, destroy their ability to sow terror throughout the region. This is a tough and complex problem.”

On Democrat Obstruction: "Democrats are unwilling to do anything right now. They're unwilling to fund DHS. They will be unwilling to fund the military.”

On Reconciliation 2.0 as the Only Path Forward: "Reconciliation is the only tool and the only mechanism available, which then supersedes the need for 60 votes, reduces that threshold to 51 and allows us to get things done that are good for this country, namely the security of this country."

On Why Republicans Can't Phone It In on 2.0: "We were elected to do hard things, to solve hard problems. Anybody can give 1,000 reasons why we can't do something, but we're here to figure out why we can and how we can, and reconciliation falls into that category."