Leader Schumer Floor Remarks Demanding Secretary Rubio Answer For The Trump Administration’s Disastrous Foreign Policy

Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) spoke on the Senate floor demanding that Secretary of State Marco Rubio answer for the Trump administration's disastrous foreign policy when he testifies before the Senate today. Below are Senator Schumer's remarks, which can also be viewed here:

Secretary Rubio has a lot to answer for when he testifies before the Senate today - on China, on giving kickbacks to Russia, on Ukraine, on withholding arms to Taiwan, on this administration's ridiculous rhetoric on NATO, on the disastrous gutting of foreign aid that's leaving Americans vulnerable to one infectious disease after another, on Iran, on foreign corruption, the list goes on and on and on.

And today, with all these questions, all these bungles, all these terrible terrible missteps that hurt America, today will be the first time Marco Rubio, the National Security Advisor and Secretary of State, testifies before the American people since the start of Trump's disastrous war with Iran. First time, the war's been going on over sixty days, he's finally coming to the Hill to talk about it.

Yesterday, Trump says he finds the peace negotiations with Iran "very boring," and that he "couldn't care less if they're over."

I'll tell you who cares, I want to tell you, Donald Trump, who cares: our troops who are in harm's way, their families, Americans across the country who are sick of paying the immense cost of this disastrous war, including paying four and a half dollars a gallon at the pump.

Secretary Rubio needs to answer whether he cares about ending this war.

I urge my colleagues as well to ask Rubio to address recent reports that the Trump administration left a loophole open for the past year and a half that allowed China to acquire potentially hundreds of thousands of cutting-edge American AI chips.

These chips are essential to America's national security and to our economic competitiveness, but Chinese companies linked to the Chinese military have funneled them through foreign firms with seeming impunity.

By failing to protect this vital technology, the Trump administration has threatened our lead in the AI race, and weakened our national security.

Either the Trump administration failed to identify the loophole - suggesting gross incompetence - or it kept it open willfully­, which is very very dangerous.

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