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Republicans Are Silent on Tim Walberg’s Comments That Gaza Should End ‘Like Nagasaki and Hiroshima’

Walberg said his comments were taken out of context, and he was not advocating for the use of nuclear weapons.

Tim Walberg
Walberg has since walked back his comments, calling himself a “child of the Cold War era.” Joshua A. Bickel/AP

Republicans have been silent in response to Michigan Rep. Tim Walberg’s recent comments that the conflict in Gaza should end “like Nagasaki and Hiroshima.”

A video posted on X on Friday showed Walberg at a recent town hall in his district, answering a constituent’s question about President Joe Biden’s plan to build a port to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. Walberg responded that the U.S. should not “be spending a dime” on humanitarian aid and then referenced the atomic bombs dropped over the two Japanese cities toward the end of World War II that killed hundreds of thousands of people.

“Get it over quick,” he said.