Leader Schumer Floor Remarks, On The 200th Day Of Trump’s Iran War, Urging His Republican Colleagues To Join Senate Democrats In Ending This Expensive, Failed War

Washington D.C.- Today, on the 200^th day of Trump's reckless war with Iran, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke on the Senate floor on the true cost of the war in Iran, and to urge Senate Republicans to finally join Senate Democrats in ending a war that has made the Iranian regime more radical, cost the American people billions, and lost too many American lives. Below are Senator Schumer's remarks, which can also be viewed here:

Trump continues to downplay the severe costs of his failed war in Iran.

This week, we learned that the war has cost the Pentagon at least - at least - 38 billion dollars and American motorists over a hundred billion dollars in extra gas costs. I saw on TV this morning the prices are approaching $4.40 a gallon. They keep going up. And the $38 billion is just a minimum estimate.

But yesterday, campaigning in North Carolina, Trump said the hundreds of billions of dollars he's burning on this war is a "very inexpensive price," this is his words, "to pay for what we've done" in Iran.

Spoken like a billionaire who's never filled his own gas tank one day in his life.

Earth to Trump: four and half dollars a gallon for gas and a record six bucks and forty cents for a gallon of diesel isn't "inexpensive" for working Americans.

What exactly does Trump think this cost has gotten the American people?

Is it the Iranian regime in Tehran that's even more radical than before the war?

Is it Iran's tightening grip on the Strait of Hormuz and other key shipping chokepoints?

How about the eighteen brave US servicemembers killed, hundreds more wounded, and tens of thousands kept in harm's way for months on end?

The only thing Trump has done in Iran is make everything worse.

How can my Republican colleagues go along with this?

Senate Democrats, make no mistake about it, Senate Democrats will push for another vote on our War Powers Resolution next week to bring our troops home, and we will continue to force votes until Trump ends his Iranian blunder.

Senate Republicans have a choice: keep forcing Americans to pay the costs of Trump's forever war - or stop kissing the ring and join us in ending it.

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