- Republican South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace walked out of a House Armed Services briefing on Iran, stating she would not support sending troops to the country.
- Mace criticized President Donald Trump's ongoing "war in the Middle East," now in its fourth week, comparing the situation to the Iraq War.
- She claimed the justifications for the conflict presented to the American public differed significantly from the military objectives discussed in the congressional briefing.
- “Washington’s war machine is hard at work. They are try to drag us into Iran to make it another Iraq. We can’t let them,” Mace wrote on X.
- The Pentagon has ordered approximately 2,000 troops from the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division to deploy to the Middle East, supplementing thousands of Marines already en route.
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