Leader Schumer Floor Remarks Urging Senate Republicans To Listen To The American People & Vote Today To End Trump’s Disastrous And Unpopular Iran War

Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke on the Senate floor urging Senate Republicans to vote for Senate Democrats' War Powers Resolution and end Trump's disastrous and unpopular Iran War. Below are Senator Schumer's remarks, which can also be viewed here:

The hole Donald Trump is digging himself into in Iran has turned into a crater.

Somehow Trump has convinced himself that the American people are cheering him on on this blunder rather than crying out for him to bring our troops home.

Today, Democrats are going to force another vote on our War Powers Resolution to end this war, get our troops out of harm's way, and force Trump to face the reality of this catastrophe.

Will our Republican colleagues join us, or are they just going to keep their heads in the sand? They know how bad this is. They're hearing it from one end of the country to the other. But they're so afraid of speaking truth to power, of telling Donald Trump he's wrong, that they almost time after time, the vast majority of them vote to go along with this war that is not achieving any goals and is raising our gas prices now to above $4.

Yesterday, Trump said of the American people: "they're not against the war."

Trump, wake up. No one wants this war but you and your cronies and the supine Republican Senators and Congressmen who go along.

The American people are against this war.

They're against seeing our men and women in uniform get killed and wounded for a war that seems to have no direction or purpose. They're against hearing Trump and Hegseth lie about casualties. And they're definitely against paying over four bucks for a gallon of gas.

In fact, this morning, oil once again hit $100 dollars a barrel as the war continues to spiral.

Just this week, we saw polling that the war in Iran is America's least popular war since polling began. Let me say that again so Donald Trump and my Republican colleagues can hear it. Just this week, we saw polling that the Iran War is America's least popular war since the polling began. So, when Donald Trump says the American people are not against the war, he's got his head deep, deep, deep in the sand.

Even Trump's MAGA supporters are starting to sour on the war.

No one, no one wants to watch Donald Trump keep pouring gasoline on a fire he claims to have put out weeks ago.

Donald Trump's war is ramping up, not winding down.

If Donald Trump won't listen to the American people and end this war, then Congress must.

Bipartisan majorities in both chambers of Congress have already passed legislation to end Trump's aimless, illegal, ruinous war.

We will keep demanding Trump end this war with another vote today. We're going to keep the pressure on our Republican colleagues and that's what we're supposed to be doing here because its Congress that has the power to bring war and so it is perfectly appropriate and right and part of our obligation as the opposition party to force our Republican colleagues to vote again and again and again until they see the light.

Senate Republicans need to stop indulging the president's foreign policy of fantasy and support our War Powers Resolution to bring our troops home.

When are Senate Republicans going to stand up? When will they say enough?

The American people are watching. Senate Republicans lose credibility with the American people with every vote they take against ending Trump's war.

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