U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., speaks during a Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee proceeding connected Wednesday, June 17, 2026, successful Washington. Photo by: Office of Sen. Jacky Rosen / Screenshot Image
By Las Vegas Sun Staff (contact)
Saturday, Aug. 15, 2026 | 2 a.m.
U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., joined Senate colleagues this week successful introducing authorities aimed astatine restoring afloat and close casualty records for work members killed and wounded successful the warfare successful Iran, her bureau said Friday successful a quality release.
The bill, titled the Honoring the Sacrifices of Our Troops successful War Act, would besides prohibit Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth from altering those records successful a mode that obscures the war’s quality toll, Rosen’s bureau wrote.
The authorities follows a study that recovered the Pentagon had softly reclassified caller work subordinate deaths and injuries, removing them from the authoritative warfare casualty count.
Rosen had antecedently joined different senators successful pressing Hegseth to merchandise a implicit and close accounting of each work members killed, wounded oregon injured successful enactment of Operation Epic Fury successful July.
“The Trump administration’s determination to reclassify and dishonor the deaths of our work members who made the eventual sacrifice successful the warfare successful Iran is disgraceful and beyond the pale,” Rosen said successful a statement. “This authorities would instantly reconstruct the casualty records of our fallen and wounded work members and guarantee nary different medication tin ever bash this again.”
The measure mandates close tracking and publishing of each subject and civilian casualties nether their circumstantial operations, retroactively protecting the benefits, aesculapian attraction and designation owed to affected families.
It was introduced by Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., and co-sponsored by 17 senators, including Rosen. There is nary companion authorities successful the U.S. House.
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