Leader Schumer Floor Remarks Urging His Republican Colleagues To Support Senate Democrats’ Eighth War Powers Resolution Against Trump’s Illegal War In Iran

Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) spoke on the Senate floor to implore his Republican colleagues to help end President Trump's cycle of failed threats and negotiations with Iran by voting for Senate Democrats' eighth War Powers Resolution. Below are Senator Schumer's remarks, which can also be viewed here:

Yesterday, Donald Trump once again displayed the vicious cycle he's trapped America in with his disastrous war with Iran.

Within hours, he went from threatening to blow Iran into oblivion to saying that a peace deal was imminent. This he does within six hours of one another. Can anyone believe this guy? Whether you're a world leader, an American citizen, or anything in between: can you believe him? He keeps making it up. He doesn't care about the truth and what's worse is, he thinks you don't care about the truth. That he can lie, lie, lie.

First, he threatens to blow Iran into smithereens and six hours later he says a peace deal is imminent. We know it's bull. Everyone knows it's bull. But maybe people don't realize the consequences of that bull. How disastrous this war is, and how it turns America's attention, or at least Trump's attention and his followers' attention, to this disastrous war rather than lowering their costs.

We have seen Trump follow the same pattern in Iran again and again: Trump threatens, Trump retreats, then threatens again - rinse and repeat. That's what he does.

Trump is practicing "Groundhog Day" diplomacy, smashing the clock over and over and over again, like Bill Murray does in the movie.

Trump's no closer to ending this war, no closer to bringing down the skyrocketing costs of this war, no closer to getting our troops out of harm's way.

Senate Republicans must not continue to allow Trump to remain stuck in this never-ending loop of threats and failed negotiations.

I urge Senate Republicans to support Democrats' War Powers Resolution to withdraw our troops from hostilities with Iran, which we are bringing to the floor for an eighth vote, an eighth vote, later today.

Republicans, instead of perpetuating Trump's reckless cycle, could help break it by supporting our War Powers [Resolution] to end the war. That would be doing what the American people need and want.

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