Leader Schumer Floor Remarks Urging Senate Republicans To Vote With Democrats To End Trump’s Reckless War In Iran

Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke on the Senate floor ahead of the vote on Senator Baldwin's War Powers Resolution, urging Republicans to vote to end the costly and unpopular war in Iran. Below are Senator Schumer's remarks:

Every day this disastrous war continues, Donald Trump digs himself deeper and deeper into a hole. The longer Trump waits to extricate the U.S. from this war, the deeper the hole gets and the harder it will be for him to get out.

Republican Senators should do Donald Trump a favor and pull him out of the hole he's dug by voting for our War Powers Resolution today. If not, they'll sink even further into that same hole themselves.

So I urge Senate Republicans to vote for Senator Baldwin's War Powers Resolution - their fifth opportunity to vote for a War Powers Resolution. I was proud to be actively involved and sponsor so many of them.

Iran's leadership has become even more militant than before the war. Iran's hold over [the Strait of] Hormuz has gotten even stronger. Iran maintains its economic strangle hold on the world, firing on more merchant ships in the Strait of Hormuz earlier today.

Meanwhile, gas has been over $4 a gallon for weeks - that's the highest it's been in years.

Americans are going to pay $740 more this year to fill up their tanks because of Trump's war.

Every day, we hear new promises from the Trump administration that victory has been achieved, that peace is at hand, that costs are starting to come down. And every day, we see the opposite. Trump can talk all he wants, but nothing will change until he realizes that this war needs to end.

And if Donald Trump won't dig us out of this hole, Congress must step into the breach and exercise its constitutional authority over matters of war and peace.

Democrats will continue to force votes on our resolutions every week until Senate Republicans see reason.

Again, I thank Senator Baldwin for her work on this resolution, and I urge colleagues on both sides to vote yes.

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