# Bill Cassidy — "Reagan is rolling over in his grave" > [!quote] "Reagan is rolling over in his grave. Iran's nuclear ambitions were not curbed, and they have learned that threatening the Strait of Hormuz works and will undoubtedly leverage it in the future…. Before the war, the strait was open, Iran was being crushed by sanctions, and 13 service members were still alive. Now, 13 Americans are dead, families have paid billions at the pump, sanctions will be lifted, and the bombing has stopped. This is the worst foreign policy blunder in decades." > — Bill Cassidy, posted on social media, June 17, 2026 ## Context Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) — who had lost his primary to a Trump-backed challenger a month earlier — issued this statement after the release of the [[Trump-Iran MOU 2026]]. It is one of the sharpest Republican condemnations of the deal, indicting it on the traditional Reaganite hawkish terms the GOP held for forty years. ## Why This Matters Cassidy's invocation of [[Ronald Reagan]] captures the intra-party rupture the MOU exposed: a Republican senator measuring [[Donald Trump]]'s settlement against the party's own Cold War foreign-policy creed and finding it a "blunder." It is a clean receipt of establishment-GOP revolt against the populist break, and ties the deal's perceived failure directly to the [[Strait of Hormuz]] leverage problem. ## See Also - [[Trump-Iran MOU 2026]] - [[Iran War 2026]] - [[Bill Cassidy]] - [[Strait of Hormuz]]