Leader Schumer Floor Remarks Demanding Senate Republicans Stop Bending The Knee To Trump And Start Fighting For Americans

Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke on the Senate floor urging his Republican colleagues to finally stand up for the American people, stand up to Donald Trump, and work to lower costs, end the war, and fight to protect voting rights. Below are Senator Schumer's remarks, which can also be viewed here:

Seeing Trump come to the Capitol today to meet Senate Republicans is like watching the clown car pull up to the circus. Made even more so by Trump's canceling of the bill signing, which I'll talk more about in a minute.

When Trump comes to the Hill today, he'll find his MAGA Senate Majority in meltdown. They're one big hot mess. That's what the Republican Senate is right now. Republicans are wringing each other's necks. They can't govern their own conference of 53 people, let alone the country of hundreds of millions.

After being double-crossed, blindsided, and embarrassed by Trump, Senate Republicans can either keep bending the knee to the president or start demanding answers for the American people.

The reason Republicans are such a mess is obvious: Trump's views are totally out of touch with the American people's views, and Republicans are afraid to tell him he's wrong. Speak up. Stand up to Trump. Tell him what you think, Republicans. That might do your party some good. It might even do Trump some good if he'd ever listen.

Americans want to know what Republicans are doing to bring down costs. Americans want to know how Trump plans to end his disastrous war with Iran. Americans want to know whether the GOP will continue going along with Trump's all-out assault on their voting rights with legislation like the SAVE Act.

If my colleagues across the aisle have any sense at all, they ought to grill Trump on affordability, on his failed war with Iran, on his effort to hold American national security hostage, and all his other policies that are hurting the American people.

When they emerge from their meeting, will Republicans have told Trump the truth? Will they speak truth to power? Will they do their job? Or will they just bend in obeisance to him and get more frustrated, more angry, more ineffective than they've ever been.

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