Leader Schumer Floor Remarks After The 100th Day Of The Reckless And Costly Iran War, Urging Senate Republicans Finally To Join With Democrats & Vote To End The War

Washington D.C. - Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke on the Senate floor on Trump's war in Iran, denouncing the military actions and the detrimental effects they have had on the American economy and to American families. Below are Senator Schumer's remarks, which can also be viewed here.

Yesterday marked a hundred days since Donald Trump launched one of the most foolish misadventures in the history of American foreign policy.

Trump launched his disastrous war with Iran without a clear objective, without a coherent strategy, and without a care for how it would endanger our brave servicemembers and hurt the American people.

A hundred days later, Trump still has no idea how to extricate America from this mess of his own making, and he still doesn't seem to care that the American people are struggling to bear the cost at the gas pumps everyday.

Trump said it himself: "I don't think about Americans' financial situation." He doesn't think about. Number 1 issue facing the American people - he doesn't think about it. What kind of President is that?

Trump better start thinking about Americans' financial situation, because it becomes more and more dire, Americans are becoming more and more livid.

Costs on everything from gasoline to groceries to consumer goods are through the roof because of Trump and his war. American families have spent an extra $750 dollars on average these past 100 days to meet the rising costs of Trump's war. Every time Americans go to the pump and see a gallon of gasoline costing well over four dollars, they know who to blame: Donald Trump.

For a hundred days, Trump has claimed that peace is just days away only for negotiations to crumble over and over and over again.

Trump's efforts at peace by press release won't stop the fighting.

Congress needs to reassert its powers under the Constitution and end this war.

Soon, Senate Democrats will force another vote on our War Powers Resolution to end the war - the ninth opportunity we have given Republicans to do their jobs and dig themselves and Trump out of this hole.

The walls are closing in on Trump - and the US economy - Republicans need to find their courage and end this war.

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