'Bad deal to end a war he should have NEVER started': Patty Murray slams Trump's Iran peace plan
Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) tore into President Donald Trump's proposed peace deal with Iran, calling it a bad ending to a war she had never considered necessary or wanted. "American servicemembers killed and injured. Thousands of civilians killed. Billions of taxpayer dollars lit on fire. All for a worse deal than what Obama negotiated without dropping a single bomb," she wrote on X.
The 75-year-old's remarks came in the wake of both sides signing a preliminary agreement to end the conflict, though the full details were still unclear. Among the reported provisions were the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and an end to the U.S. blockade on Iranian ports, and more contentious issues, including Iran's nuclear programme and existing U.S. sanctions, were set aside for negotiations over the following 60 days.
After the loss of U.S. servicemembers and a terrible hit to the global economy, it appears that all the U.S. will be getting from Trump’s Iran war is:
— Senator Adam Schiff (@SenAdamSchiff) June 15, 2026
1) a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, which was open before the war, and
2) an agreement to agree on a nuclear deal in the…
The report also said that the U.S. would waive oil sanctions on Iran for a specified period, with all American and United Nations sanctions to be lifted on an agreed timetable following a finalized deal. An Iranian official told Reuters that Washington had agreed to release $25 billion in frozen Iranian assets, while a reconstruction and development plan for Iran—to be coordinated with regional allies and negotiated with Tehran—was expected to be finalised within the same 60-day window.
If true, President Trump’s announcement is a step in the right direction to end the reckless war he started. Unfortunately, the president has made many promises about this war and fulfilled few of them. The fact that we have not seen any text of an agreement, while he and Iranian…
— Senator Chris Coons (@ChrisCoons) June 15, 2026
With her withering assessment, Murray joined a growing chorus of critics, which also includes conservatives, questioning the contents of the administration's proposed deal, arguing that a bad deal was being offered as closure to a war with a heavy financial and civilian toll. What was clear was that once the full terms became public, they were expected to face tough scrutiny from both sides of the aisle.
Who knows if there will be a final agreement. But if there is, two things will be true at the same time:
— Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) June 15, 2026
a) It's essentially surrender to Iran.
b) We should be glad about it, because every day this insane, illegal war continues, we get weaker.
1/ Let me explain.
Murray, who is the vice chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, had not been a supporter of the war from the outset. She previously pressed Secretary of State Marco Rubio on whether he tried to dissuade the president from going to war with Iran, a question Rubio sidestepped. She also held him to account over the administration's earlier assertion that the conflict would be over in "weeks, not months."
These remarks came during a State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs subcommittee hearing on the FY27 budget request for the State Department. She reminded the room that Trump had campaigned on bringing down inflation and keeping America out of new wars. "Now we have higher prices and a new war. Trump promised the American people this war would be fast and decisive. It has been slow, and secret, and endless," she had said, adding that in her view a majority of Americans opposed the conflict.
