Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), a combat veteran and member of the House Armed Services Committee, on Monday renewed his call for the United States to withdraw from its ongoing war with Iran, telling his followers on X that the conflict is directly driving up costs for working American families.
Crow’s post, published at 11:55 a.m. on September 14, 2026, read in full:
“The Iran war is increasing prices for working families. It’s time to end this reckless conflict.”
The congressman’s statement came three days after The Hill reported that inflation held steady in August, with the Bureau of Labor Statistics recording a 0.4 percent monthly increase in the consumer price index and a 3.4 percent annual rate — unchanged from July. Gas prices accounted for more than a third of the monthly increase, rising 3.9 percent in August alone, while overall energy prices climbed 2.1 percent.
Core CPI, which strips out volatile food and energy costs, rose 0.3 percent in August and 2.4 percent over the past year, according to the same BLS data. Annual inflation has remained above 3 percent since March, shortly after Operation Epic Fury — the Trump administration’s military campaign against Iran — began in late February.
Crow’s Monday post is consistent with statements he has made since the earliest days of the conflict. On February 28, 2026, the day the Trump administration announced “major military operations” and called for regime change in Iran, Crow released a statement warning that the war would fall hardest on working-class Americans. “I went to war three times for this country and learned that when elites in Washington bang the war drums, working class folks pay the price,” Crow said at the time, adding that “Americans want us out of the regime change business.”
Crow, a former Army Ranger and paratrooper who served with the 82nd Airborne Division and the 75th Ranger Regiment in Iraq and Afghanistan, has repeatedly framed his opposition to the war through his own combat experience. At a House Democratic Caucus press conference on March 4, 2026, Crow told reporters, “After trillions of dollars, thousands of American lives, decades of endless conflict, my entire adult life, a quarter of a century of American war, here we go again.”
Later that same week, Crow expanded on those remarks, telling fellow House Democrats that lawmakers who support the war are not the ones who bear its costs. “They’re not talking about their kids or their billionaire donors picking up rifles, jumping into planes, jumping into helicopters. They’re talking about working-class kids like us. They’re talking about those in small towns, in farms and ranches across the country, that have to actually do the work, that have to fight and die, and the American people that have to pay for all of it. Americans have had enough,” Crow said.
Crow has also pressed the Trump administration directly on the financial cost of the war. When President Trump requested a $1.5 trillion defense budget on April 3, 2026, Crow issued a statement arguing that the spending priorities were misaligned with what voters actually wanted. “Americans don’t want foreign wars, they want cheaper health care, groceries, and gas at home,” Crow said in the release.
Beyond the economic toll, Crow has used his position on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and as Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Intelligence and Special Operations to question the administration’s oversight of the war. In March, he led 120 Democratic members of Congress in demanding answers on civilian casualties during Operation Epic Fury, including a U.S. strike on an Iranian girls’ elementary school that reportedly killed at least 175 people, many of them children.
That same month, Crow also joined every Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee in a letter calling on Chairman Mike Rogers to hold public hearings on the war, arguing that the Trump administration had failed to keep Congress and the public informed. “We are deeply troubled by the lack of transparency from the Trump Administration and the Department of Defense and its failure to keep the Congress and the American people informed,” the letter read.
The economic backdrop to Crow’s Monday statement has intensified in recent weeks. According to The Hill’s reporting, the Federal Reserve faces a pivotal interest rate decision this week, with markets pricing in an increasingly high probability of a rate hike. As of Thursday morning, investors were pricing in an 87 percent chance of a quarter-point increase, up from roughly 70 percent the day before, according to the CME FedWatch tool cited in the report.
Seema Shah, chief global strategist at Principal Asset Management, said the combination of rising energy prices and continued tensions with Iran had made a rate hike all but certain, telling The Hill that “the debate has quickly shifted from whether the Fed will hike to the more important question of how many hikes this cycle will ultimately require.”
Fed Chair Kevin Warsh, who has held the position for less than four months, has faced mounting pressure from the Trump administration to lower rates even as inflation data points in the opposite direction. President Trump wrote on Truth Social that “the Fed Board, with its great new leader, must get smart — BE PATRIOTS for a change,” after the release of the August jobs report, and Vice President JD Vance told reporters the administration wanted the central bank’s help bringing down mortgage rates.
Brent crude, the international oil price benchmark, was trading at just above $107 per barrel as of Thursday afternoon, while West Texas Intermediate sat near $102 per barrel — price levels that have persisted since the war-driven energy shock began earlier this year, according to The Hill’s report.
Crow, who represents Colorado’s 6th Congressional District and was first elected in 2018, has built his opposition to the war around his identity as both a veteran and a co-chair of House Democrats’ National Security Task Force. His Monday post continues a consistent line of messaging that has run from the war’s opening days in February through the latest economic data in September, tying the conflict directly to the cost-of-living pressures facing his constituents and working Americans nationwide.