{"id":44153,"date":"2026-04-07T21:10:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=44153"},"modified":"2026-04-07T21:10:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:10:03","slug":"democrats-call-on-republicans-to-prioritise-patriotic-duty-over-party-loyalty-and-stop-trumps-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=44153","title":{"rendered":"Democrats call on Republicans to prioritise patriotic duty over party loyalty and stop Trump\u2019s \u2018madness\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2026\/04\/0800033188b894f.webp\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Democrats lawmakers in the US House of Representatives called on Republicans on Tuesday \u201cto put patriotic duty over party loyalty and stop what they called \u201cmadness\u201d after President Donald Trump, in his latest threat to Iran, warned of decimating an entire civilisation.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has given Iran until 8pm ET on April 8 in Washington \u2014 3:30am in Tehran \u2014 to end its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and enter a deal with Washington or see the US destroy every bridge \u200cand power plant in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Trump renewed his threat, stating in a Truth Social post: \u201cA whole \u200bcivilisation will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don\u2019t want that to happen, but it probably will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a joint statement, the House Democrats said that Trump\u2019s threat that he will destroy \u201ca whole civilisation\u201d in Iran required a \u201cdecisive Congressional response\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  w-full  w-full  media--left    media--uneven  media--stretch\" data-original-src=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HouseDemocrats\/status\/2041576849269035195?s=20\">\n<div class=\"media__item  media__item--twitter  \"><span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HouseDemocrats\/status\/2041576849269035195?s=20\"><\/a>\n    <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump is completely unhinged. His statement, threatening to eradicate an entire civilisation, shocks the conscience and requires a decisive congressional response,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe House must come back into session immediately and vote to end this reckless war of choice in the Middle East before Donald Trump plunges our country into World War III,\u201d the Democrats warned.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said that for years, \u201cRepublicans have enabled and excused Trump\u2019s deeply dangerous and extreme behaviour\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnough is enough. Our brave men and women in uniform have been put into harm\u2019s way in the Middle East. Over a dozen have already been killed and hundreds injured. Gas prices are skyrocketing, the cost of living in America is out of control, and billions of taxpayer dollars are being wasted on a reckless war of choice,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats said: \u201cIt\u2019s time for House Republicans to put patriotic duty over party loyalty and join Democrats in stopping this madness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The US president\u2019s remarks also drew a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1989519\/pre-admission-of-genocide-politicos-blast-trump-over-threat-to-destroy-a-whole-civilisation-in-iran\">strong reaction<\/a> from politicos, with several calling for him to be removed from office by invoking the 25th Amendment, which allows for the vice president and a majority of the cabinet to declare a president unfit for office.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1989572\/democrats-call-on-republicans-to-prioritise-patriotic-duty-over-party-loyalty-and-stop-trumps-madness\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats lawmakers in the US House of Representatives called on Republicans on Tuesday \u201cto put patriotic duty over party loyalty and stop what they called \u201cmadness\u201d&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertaonment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}