H. Con. Res. 86

Floor Speech

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Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, for years, Trump promised to put maximum pressure on Iran, but he ended up delivering maximum confusion, maximum chaos, and maximum cost to the American people with his disastrous war.

Every second this war continues, the costs to the American people go up.

And this is the 10th time Democrats have forced Republicans to vote on a War Powers Resolution to end the war. Time after time, the vast majority of Senate Republicans sided with Trump and his war, instead of the American people.

The American people have paid the price for Trump's historic blunder in Iran. It will go down in the history books as one of the worst foreign policy forays America has ever made or any country has ever made. It is so, so ridiculous, costly; achieving no goals that Trump set forward--virtually none.

The American people have seen skyrocketing gas prices, soaring costs, and, tragically, the loss of 13 servicemembers and the wounding of hundreds more.

And, meanwhile, Iran took Trump to the cleaners. Trump gave Iran everything--their terrorist proxies, their control over the strait, their own revenue, their hundreds of billions of dollars in reconstruction aid. And it is still unclear what we have gotten in return.

Trump, Vance, and Rubio refused to come before the American public and answer questions. No one knows what side deals there are. No one knows what actually was said. No one knows the details of this so- called understanding, and the reason is they are probably afraid to show it because they know how badly they have done.

Trump won't brief Congress. Trump won't defend his deal. Trump won't end his war. But Democrats will keep forcing this vote--and we are going to keep doing it--because only Congress has the power to take this Nation to war, and this one must end. In fact, Trump never, ever should have started it.

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