Leader Schumer Floor Remarks: Congress Has Spoken, Trump Must Withdraw U.S. Forces From Iran Immediately

Washington, D.C. – Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke on the Senate floor after both chambers of Congress passed the War Powers Resolution demanding that Trump must immediately end the war and withdraw U.S. forces from hostilities in Iran. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:

The successful passage of our War Powers Resolution yesterday reasserts what the American people have been saying for months: Trump’s reckless war with Iran must end.

For the first time, this resolution has passed both chambers of Congress and does not require the President’s signature.

The message from the only branch of government with the power to declare war, the Congress, could not be more clear: the Trump administration must withdraw U.S. forces from hostilities in Iran. Both houses have now spoken and said just that.

Every day that Trump refuses to get our troops out of harm’s way, the pressure mounts on him and the Senate Republicans who continue to go along with this failed war.

Trump said our War Powers Resolution to end his war is “meaningless.” Trump thinks Americans’ frustrations with his historic blunder are meaningless too.

Trump complained that our resolution, “just made my job more difficult.” Donald Trump: our job is not to make your job less difficult. Our job is to make the American people’s lives less difficult, especially after all you've done to make them more difficult.

We don’t care about making Trump’s life easier – we care about making American lives easier by ending this disastrous, costly war.

Trump still has no idea just how much more difficult this war has made life for the American people.

13 lost servicemembers, hundreds get hurt, everyone’s paying hundreds of dollars more for extra gasoline, everyone’s enduring increasing inflation and costs going up, and now he’s asking the American people to foot the hundred-billion-dollar bill for his war.

Americans don’t even know if they’ll get anything in return because Trump refuses to reveal his deal with Iran.

But what we do know is that Iran took Trump to the cleaners.

Everything’s worse off. Gas prices, deficit, American prestige in the world. Iran gets hundreds of billions of dollars for reconstruction, they get sanctions relief, they get tighter control over the Strait of Hormuz, and much more.

The Congress and the American people have spoken after yesterday: Trump needs to end this disaster of a war immediately.

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