Senate Democrats will force war powers vote, says minority leader Chuck Schumer – US politics live
Senate Democrats will force war powers vote, says minority leader Chuck Schumer – US politics live
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In a press conference in New York today, Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, said Democrats in the upper chamber would force a vote on a war powers resolution to limit the administration’s military campaign in Iran when Congress returns from recess next week.
Earlier, the Senate’s top Democrat called Donald Trump a “military moron” on social media.
Schumer noted that, despite the two-week ceasefire, the cost of the war, and the effect on gas prices, has made the US “worse off today than we were when [Trump] started it”.
“If he restarts this war we will be in even worse shape. We must pass our War Powers Resolution to end this war for good,” Schumer wrote.