Leader Schumer Floor Remarks Imploring Senate Republicans To Listen To The American People And Vote To End The Iran War

Washington, D.C. – Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke on the Senate floor ahead of the thirteenth vote on Democrats’ Iran War Powers Resolution imploring his Senate Republican colleagues to listen to the American people and vote to end Trump’s disastrous and unpopular Iran War. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:

Nearly half a year into Trump’s ruinous war with Iran, the conflict is widening instead of winding down.

More countries get dragged into the mix, more fronts open up, and more Americans get killed and injured.

The American people have made it clear: no one wants this war to go on.

A new poll this morning found only a fifth, a fifth of the American people – including less than half of Republicans – want the war to continue.

Are Senate Republicans listening?

The country is clamoring for you to end this war and bring our troops home – something you can do right now by voting for Senator Gillibrand’s War Powers Resolution.

Is Trump so intimidating, so untouchable, that Republicans will keep siding with him instead of the 80% of Americans calling for the fighting to end?

The biggest thing standing between our troops and home is a Republican Party too afraid to cross the President.

Congress can break the vicious cycle of escalation Trump started in Iran, and this War Powers Resolution is how we do it.

I urge, I plead with my Republican colleagues to listen to the American people and vote to end this war. We’ll keep forcing Republicans to vote until they do.

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