{"id":518257,"date":"2026-03-12T02:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/518257\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T02:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:48:11","slug":"johnson-applauds-u-s-action-in-iran-baldwin-calls-for-war-to-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/518257\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson applauds U.S. action in Iran; Baldwin calls for war to end"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (WLUK) — Our nation’s lawmakers continue to spar over their stance on the United States’ war with Iran<\/a> — and that includes Wisconsin’s two senators.<\/a><\/p>\n

In a Connect to Congress interview Wednesday, Republican Sen. Ron Johnson praised the strikes authorized by President Donald Trump<\/a>, saying it has been “such a successful military campaign against the menace that Iran is.”<\/p>\n

Our nation’s lawmakers continue to spar over their stance on the United States’ war with Iran — and that includes Wisconsin’s two senators. (WLUK)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

“We had to act before we could no longer act. I support the president’s decision on this, and the last thing we need to do is show a divided Congress to provide aid and comfort to our enemies,” he said.<\/p>\n

Johnson expressed confidence that Trump will ensure the conflict in the Middle East is not long-lasting.<\/p>\n

“I would say President Trump is, of the presidents of my lifetime, the least likely president to get us involved in a long-term war. He’s actually a peace monger, but he recognizes you only achieve peace through strength, and he realizes when there’s a threat — like [Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s] Maduro as a narco-terrorist, or the Ayatollahs when they’re rushing toward developing nuclear weapons, their missile stockpile, their drone stockpile — that you have to act before you no longer can act,” said Johnson.<\/p>\n

This is not risk-free. It’s a bold move, a hard decision. But I support the president in doing so.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin has been an outspoken critic of the war since it began.<\/p>\n

“This president went to war — a war of choice. We were not under attack. We were not under imminent threat of attack. And the American people, through their elected members of Congress, have not had a voice in this,” Baldwin said during a CNN interview. “I want this war to end. I want to prevent other service members from dying. I want to stop the waste of billions of dollars of taxpayer money.”<\/p>\n

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In a social media post, she wrote, “The American people don\u2019t even know why the president has thrown us into a war, how we get out of it, or why they have to pay for it. They deserve answers.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (WLUK) — Our nation’s lawmakers continue to spar over their stance on the United States’ war with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-518257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}