Leader Schumer Floor Remarks Denouncing Donald Trump’s Dangerous Promotion Of Stephen Miller To White House Chief Of Staff

Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke on the Senate floor to denounce President Trump's promotion of Stephen Miller, the architect of some of the most barbaric, inhumane policies of the Trump administration, to White House Chief of Staff. Below are Leader Schumer's remarks, which can also be viewed here:

Apparently, Donald Trump learned nothing from his historic defeat last week.

I cannot imagine a more incompetent, dangerous, and brutally nasty person to serve as White House Chief of Staff than Stephen Miller.

Last week, Americans called on Trump to stop driving our country off a cliff, but he just hit the accelerator with his appointment of Stephen Miller.

Voters want change. Trump just promised Americans something even worse than what they saw these last two years.

Miller was the architect of the Trump administration's extreme immigration policies, spending tens of billions of taxpayer dollars to deploy masked federal agents to sow chaos in American streets.

This is the same guy who smeared Renée Good and Alex Pretti as "domestic terrorists" - that was so, so disgusting - after federal agents murdered them. The man has no fidelity to any honor or truth.

Americans want to send extremists like Stephen Miller packing; Trump wants to give him a title bump.

Normally, the White House Chief of Staff is known as the "president's gatekeeper." But it's clear that Stephen Miller intends to serve as the president's grim reaper.

Donald Trump and Stephen Miller, know this: the warm-up is over. The United States Senate is done doing your every wish.

Our Democratic Majority is going to fight the skyrocketing costs, incessant chaos, and flagrant corruption coming out of the White House with everything we have.

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