Sen. Schumer: ‘Donald Trump Is Drowning in the Strait of Hormuz’

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SCHUMER: “Trump's supposed ceasefire deal has completely collapsed. Our troops are coming under attack. The Strait of Hormuz is a minefield. Gas prices are going back up. And Donald Trump is totally out of his depth. In fact, Donald Trump is drowning in the Strait of Hormuz because he has no plan. He had no plan when he got America into this war and he has no plan on how to get us out. Trump started the war without authorization, without a strategy, without an exit. The reason that we have War Powers Act is to force an administration to think through the consequences of going to war ahead of time. Trump, of course, didn’t listen. But finally, after weeks, bipartisan majorities in both chambers of Congress voted to end it.We had tried and tried. Finally, enough Republicans joined us, but Donald Trump ignored them. So now the White House has formally notified Congress that hostilities have resumed, that American strikes are underway again, and our forces remain positioned for more. Yet Republicans want the Senate to take up the NDAA, the defense bill, as though none of this is happening, as though Congress can debate the nation’s central national security bill while ignoring the nation’s most urgent national security crisis. We cannot. I will be voting no.“