2026-06-12T09:00:08.514Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/12/politics/republicans-question-trump-iran-strategy
越来越多的国会共和党人公开质疑特朗普总统不断变化的伊朗战争战略，此时中期选举临近，汽油价格飙升。
一些共和党人告诉CNN，他们希望有明确的撤军计划，并担心经济后果会让他们在11月失去多数席位。
尽管共和党内部普遍对军事战略不满，特朗普仍支持一项3500亿美元的和解法案。
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越来越多的众议院共和党人表示，他们对唐纳德·特朗普总统在伊朗不断变化的战略感到沮丧——前一天还扬言要发动地面入侵，第二天又吹捧和平谈判取得进展——许多人担心这场冲突会让他们在今年秋季失去多数席位。
特朗普最新威胁要夺取伊朗一个关键石油枢纽数小时后，几名关键共和党人——从温和派、领导层盟友到“让美国再次伟大”运动的忠实支持者——周四告诉CNN，他们对总统在没有明确战略的情况下加深冲突的威胁深感不安。随着汽油价格和通胀再次飙升，他们担心这场战争将成为本已艰难的中期选举的决定性议题。
“我认为人们真的感受到了压力，”西弗吉尼亚州共和党参议员谢莉·穆尔·卡皮托在采访中表示。“这不仅仅是汽油价格、食品价格和其他方面的问题，我认为人们存在一定程度的沮丧情绪……所以我认为总统面临的压力是达成和平解决方案并继续推进。”
“搞定它，撤军，”新泽西州温和派共和党众议员杰夫·范·德鲁表示，他强调支持削弱伊朗核力量的最终目标。“我们需要撤军计划。”
数周来，众议院共和党人对这场战争的焦虑不断升级。越来越多的议员直言不讳地警告伊朗战争造成的经济损失，担心选民对物价上涨的反弹，并呼吁迅速结束冲突。特朗普迄今为止的主要回应是推动暂时冻结联邦汽油税——这一举措遭到共和党人的广泛抨击，他们表示这在本州节省不了多少钱。他们还表示，白宫近期在反武器化资金或宴会厅安保方面的举措毫无帮助——更不用说他一天前发表的“我喜欢通胀”言论了。
“这对我来说完全说不通，”得克萨斯州共和党参议员约翰·科宁在谈到特朗普的言论时表示，他对共和党11月中期选举的竞选信息表示担忧。“我们没有讨论或关注选举期间大多数人关心的问题，也就是民生问题，我认为这是个问题。”
这一切都让众议院共和党人，包括党领袖，对如何应对战争政治、飙升的通胀和选民愤怒，以及如何应对要求他们完全效忠的总统，感到日益不安。在伊朗问题上，他们还担心如何在党内普遍不满军事战略的情况下，在8月前通过特朗普提出的高达3500亿美元的巨额五角大楼拨款请求。
包括众议院共和党最高拨款领袖汤姆·科尔众议员在内的几名顶级议员抱怨称，他们对这场战争的成本一无所知。其他人则哀叹特朗普尚未向美国公众，甚至向他们本人，阐明令人信服的理由。包括纽约州众议员尼克·拉洛塔在内的一些人不排除违背党领袖意愿，投票正式批准这场冲突，以彰显国会在这场持续数月的战争中的权威。
“我认为我们可以正确地阐明理由，但我们在这方面做得并不好，”即将退休的内布拉斯加州众议员唐·培根在谈到政府为这场冲突辩护的能力时表示。
如果特朗普真的决定升级伊朗战争——在周四早些时候撤回新空袭威胁之后——他需要向党内部分人更清楚地阐明理由。
国会共和党人普遍对任何派遣美军地面部队、延长战争的举动持怀疑态度。这包括特朗普周四早些时候夺取哈尔克岛的威胁，该威胁遭到了其所在政党的严厉警告。
“我不支持派遣地面部队，我认为美国没有这个意愿，”拉洛塔在被问及特朗普夺取那个石油基础设施枢纽的呼吁时表示。
当被问及是否会正式批准任何此类美国军事行动时，拉洛塔并未排除这种可能性：“这很有意思。如果提出这样的提案，我想研究一下。”
特朗普的忠实盟友、共和党参议员约翰·肯尼迪周四也发表了类似坦率的言论，称他对特朗普关于哈尔克岛的提议“感到担忧”，并发出严厉警告：“越南战争就是这样开始的”——同时还指出了严重的经济代价。
“我认为总统显然已经决定承受这种痛苦。我认为他已经决定，从长远来看，如果可能的话，永久削弱伊朗的好处值得我们经济、通胀率和世界经济付出的代价。我认为他已经做出了这个决定，而且这确实很痛苦，”肯尼迪表示，并补充道，他不能说这是“错误的”，因为他没有获得机密简报。
即便强烈支持这场战争的共和党议员也公开和私下承认，他们的政党在这个问题上的信息传递处理不当。
“即使会让我们失去多数席位，这也必须发生。而且可能真的会，”一名议员在匿名接受CNN采访时表示，他谈论的是这场战争敏感的政治影响。
正在阿拉巴马州竞选州长的共和党参议员汤米·塔伯维尔承认，“每个人都在为通胀头疼”。
“我们确实必须控制住通胀，”塔伯维尔表示，他还强调政党不能基于潜在的政治后果做决策。“我们不能担心那个。我们必须担心世界局势。”
然而，包括北达科他州参议员凯文·克拉默在内的许多共和党人仍然担心政治后果。克拉默认为，“人们通常会根据自己的钱包投票……如果人们在经济上没有安全感，他们通常显然会选择其他人。”
“毫无疑问，历史对我们不利。通胀对选民来说是和其他任何问题一样重要的议题”——甚至可能超过安全议题，克拉默说。但他认为民主党没有提供更好的解决方案，并暗示选民可能对两党都感到失望：“老实说，我认为现在人们对我们任何人都没有太大信心。”
支持特朗普推动汽油税假期的共和党参议员乔希·霍利表示，本周的通胀数据应该成为共和党人对高物价采取行动的“警钟”。
“我们需要一些救济，国会可以提供一些救济，”他警告称：“如果国会不能提供救济，我认为选民不会满意。”
CNN的摩根·里默、杜格尔德·麦康奈尔和凯西·里德尔为本报告做出了贡献。
War-wary Hill Republicans question Trump’s Iran strategy with control of Congress at stake
2026-06-12T09:00:08.514Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/12/politics/republicans-question-trump-iran-strategy
A growing number of congressional Republicans are publicly questioning President Trump’s shifting Iran war strategy as midterm elections approach and gas prices spike.
Some Republicans told CNN they want a clear exit strategy and fear economic fallout will cost them their majority in November.
Trump has backed a $350 billion reconciliation bill, despite widespread Republican discontentment about military strategy.
AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.
A growing number of Hill Republicans say they are frustrated with President Donald Trump’s ever-changing strategy in Iran — dangling a ground invasion one day, touting progress in peace talks the next — in a conflict many fear will cost them their majority this fall.
Hours after Trump’s latest threat to seize a key Iranian oil hub, several key Republicans — from centrists to leadership allies to MAGA loyalists — told CNN on Thursday they were deeply uncomfortable with the president’s threat to deepen the conflict without a clear strategy. And with gas prices and inflation again spiking, they fear the war will become the defining issue of an already-tough midterm election.
“I think people are really feeling it,” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, a West Virginia Republican, said in an interview. “It’s not just gas prices, food prices, and other things, and I think there’s a level of frustration. … So I think the pressure is for the president to reach a peace solution and move on.”
“Get it done. Get out,” said Rep. Jeff Van Drew, a centrist from New Jersey who stressed he supports the ultimate goal of defanging Iran’s nuclear powers. “We need an exit strategy.”
Angst over the war has been spiking for weeks among Hill Republicans. A growing chorus of lawmakers are now bluntly warning about the economic toll of the Iran war, fearing voter blowback over rising prices and calling for a swift end to the conflict. Trump’s main response so far has been a push to temporarily freeze the federal gas tax — a measure widely panned by Republicans who say it amounts to little savings back home. And they say the White House isn’t doing any favors with his recent anti-weaponization fund or ballroom security effort — not to mention his “I love the inflation” remarks just a day earlier.
“Makes absolutely no sense to me,” GOP Sen. John Cornyn of Texas said of Trump’s remarks, voicing concern about the party’s midterm message heading into November. “The fact that we’re not talking about or focused on the things that most people care about at election time, kitchen table issues, I think, is a problem.”
It all amounts to a rising sense of unease among Hill Republicans, including party leaders, about how to navigate the politics of the war, spiking inflation and voter anger alongside a president who demands their full loyalty. On Iran, they’re also worried about how they can deliver Trump’s massive Pentagon funding request — as much as $350 billion, the president has suggested — sometime by August, amid widespread discontentment in their party over military strategy.
Several top lawmakers, including the House GOP’s top spending leader, Rep. Tom Cole, have complained that they’ve been in the dark about how much the war will cost. Others have lamented that Trump has yet to lay out a convincing case to the American public — or to them personally. And some, like Rep. Nick LaLota of New York, are not ruling out backing a vote to formally authorize the conflict, against party leaders’ wishes, to assert Congress’ authority in the monthslong war.
“I think we can lay out the case right, but we haven’t done a good job at it,” retiring Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska said of the administration’s ability to make the case for the conflict.
If Trump does decide to escalate the war in Iran — after retracting threats of new strikes earlier Thursday — he will need to make a clearer case to some in his own party.
Congressional Republicans are broadly skeptical of any move to put US troops on the ground and prolong the war. That includes Trump’s threat earlier Thursday to seize Kharg Island, which drew sharp warnings from his party.
“I don’t support boots on the ground. I don’t think America has the stomach for that,” LaLota said, when asked about Trump’s call to seize that oil infrastructure hub.
Asked if he would want to formally authorize any US operation doing so, LaLota did not rule it out: “It’s interesting. I would like to take a look at that if such a proposal is made.”
Republican Sen. John Kennedy, a loyal Trump ally, offered similarly candid remarks on Thursday, saying he was “worried” about the president’s Kharg Island suggestion and offering a stark warning that “this is how it started in Vietnam” — all while pointing to the steep economic toll.
“I think the president has clearly decided to take the pain. I think he’s decided that long-term, the benefits of crippling Iran permanently, if possible, are worth the costs to our economy, to our inflation rate, and the world’s economy. I think he’s made that decision, and it has been painful,” Kennedy said, adding that he can’t say it’s “wrong” because he’s not in the classified briefings.
Even GOP lawmakers who strongly support the war have publicly and privately acknowledged their party has mishandled messaging around the issue.
“It needed to happen even if it costs us our majority. And it might,” one lawmaker told CNN, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the fraught politics of the war.
Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who is running for governor in Alabama, acknowledged that “everybody is having problems” with inflation.
“We do have to get it under control,” said Tuberville, who also stressed the party can’t make decisions based on potential political fallout. “We can’t worry about that. We’ve gotta worry about the world.”
Any political fallout, however, remains a concern for a number of Republicans, including Sen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, who argued that “people often vote their pocketbook. … If people don’t feel secure financially, they oftentimes obviously respond by choosing somebody else.”
“There’s no question that history is against us. Inflation is as big an issue to voters as any other issue” — perhaps even over security issues, Cramer said. But he argued Democrats haven’t offered a better solution and suggested voters might have soured on both parties: “I don’t think people have a great deal of confidence in any of us right now, quite honestly.”
Republican Sen. Josh Hawley, who has backed Trump’s push for a gas tax holiday, said this week’s inflation numbers should be a “wake up call” for Republicans to take action on high prices.
“We need some relief, and Congress can deliver some relief,” he said, warning: “If Congress doesn’t deliver the relief, I think voters are not going to be pleased.”
CNN’s Morgan Rimmer, Dugald McConnell and Casey Riddle contributed to this report.
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