Here is a letter I sent U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman, R-Watersmeet, on March 9 through his Congressional portal.

Congressman Bergman,

The Trump administration’s multiple tariffs, threats to annex Greenland and Canada, attacks on Venezuela purportedly for drug trafficking, while pardoning a former Honduran president/drug kingpin, are baffling. The administration’s policies align more with the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland than a great nation.

The policies, bereft of reason, are chaotic, out of focus, and consistently and needlessly cruel. The administration has killed American citizens (see “Americans Are Now a Target in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown” Wall Street Journal March 7, 2026), unnecessarily warehoused fellow humans in inhumane conditions, betraying Ronald Reagan’s vision of America being the shining city on a hill.

Now the president is attacking Iran. The administration, after it attacked Iran, has by March 7 given at least 10 shifting and contradictory reasons for the attack. Among the more questionable claims is that Iran interfered with the 2020 and 2024 elections. A claim he has made against China, Georgia Republican election officials and Dominion Voting, to name a few. He claims Iran’s nuclear program has to be stopped; however, in June 2025, he claimed that US bombing had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program. He said he wants regime change, but that is not what he said before he was elected. Just ask Marjorie Taylor Greene.

The administration attacked Venezuela for changing reasons: to stop drug traffic or take back “our” oil. However, the president pardoned former Honduran Juan Hernández, who was serving a 45-year sentence for trafficking over 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S., and no one from the administration has explained how oil under Venezuelan territory is “our” oil.

You would be able to explain to the president the effects of fatigue resulting from constant combat deployment and combat. The president avoided military service and has been said to call the U.S. Marines who died in Belleau Wood “suckers.” He doesn’t fully understand the pitfalls of sustained military intervention.

The president’s actions appear at odds with the decent, caring, peaceful, Constitution-loving Americans that live in the First Congressional District. Do you see it differently?

Article I of the Constitution says Congress declares war, funds the military or makes rules governing the military. Shouldn’t Congress assert that authority? Shouldn’t Congress debate whether the United States should commit to killing and being killed?

In our lifetimes, we have experienced several wars that had no end game: Vietnam and Iraq and Afghanistan, for example. They killed a lot of Americans and millions of non-Americans. What is the goal for Iran? And how will it be accomplished?