In A Shockwave To GOP, Schumer Demands Hegseth’s Trial & Removal, DESTROYS Disastrous Iran War

Are we in a quorum? I ask unanimous consent the quorum be dispensed with. Without objection. Well, Madam President, last week the American people put Donald Trump and the GOP on blast. Americans pulverized the red wall and for good reason. Americans want a government that recognizes and responds to their needs. And Democrats are ready to deliver. We listened when families called out for relief. From their back-breaking costs on health care, groceries, gasoline, electricity, and so many other essentials. Crucially, we ran candidates who could speak to their states about the issues that mattered most to their constituencies. And what did the other side do? Trump and the Republicans not only ignored the American people's concerns for cost, chaos, and corruption. They ignored it for two years. And they treated Americans' anguish with utter disdain and contempt and made things even worse. Americans are sick of being told to suck it up as they pay $4.5 for gasoline because of a war they never wanted. Americans are tired of paying a fortune at the supermarket while Donald Trump and his family made a fortune on the stock market. Americans are finished with forking over their tax dollars so Trump can cover Washington in gold. The American people gave our new Democratic majority our marching orders. Make their lives more affordable, their government more competent, and their capital less corrupt. Democrats are going to move forward to deliver results for Americans with or without Republicans. Americans were clear about wanting to end Trump's war, stop his tariffs, lower health care costs, ban both members of Congress and the president from trading stocks, and so much more. And Democrats are going to deliver. We're going to spend every second of every day striving to prove ourselves worthy of Americans' trust. If Republicans learned their lesson last week, they ought to start listening to Americans. But I'm not holding my breath. They still seem to embrace Trump. If Trump and Republicans decide to spend the next two years standing in the way of the solutions Americans resoundedly voted for last week, Tuesday will look like a cakewalk compared to the election day of 2028. Elections have always been the strongest lever Americans have to counter a wannabe king. The American people used that power last week, and you better believe they will use it again in two years if Trump and the GOP keep showing them the same contempt and disdain. Now on the Pete Hegseth trial. Trump's disastrous war in Iran will go down as one of the greatest foreign policy fiascos in American history. The Senate needs to put Pete Hegseth on trial. So we can remove him for his catastrophic failure in Iran. Americans are calling for an end to this war, a war they never asked for and is costing them dearly every day. And Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth's prosecution of this war could not be more shameful. More than eight months into this war, this administration continues it aimlessly and has yet to present any plan to bring our troops home. Hegseth waged this war illegally. In open defiance of the Constitution and multiple war power resolutions, this Congress passed to end the fighting. Hegseth couldn't care less about going to war without a formal declaration or authorization of military force, never mind its cost to the American people. Under Hegseth's orders, the Pentagon has shamefully covered up the number of American service members who have been killed and wounded in this aimless war. How despicable, despicable, covering up the sacrifices of our brave men and women in uniform. Instead of keeping our country and our service members safe, Hegseth has spent two years waging an ideological crusade against the Pentagon and purging some of our most experienced, battle-tested military officers. The American people still haven't received any answers from Hegseth on his unauthorized airstrikes against ships in the Caribbean and the East Pacific, despite evidence that civilians are among the casualties. Did Trump really expect anything less than disaster when he put a Fox News host in charge of the largest military in the world? America needs a serious Secretary of Defense right now, not a wannabe warlord. Hegseth must stand trial before the Senate. On Stephen Miller. Apparently, Donald Trump learned nothing from his historic defeat last week. I cannot imagine a more incompetent, dangerous, and brutally nasty person to serve as the White House Chief of Staff than Stephen Miller. Last week, Americans called on Trump to stop driving our country off a cliff, but he just hit the accelerator with his appointment of Stephen Miller. Voters want change. Trump just promised something even worse than what they saw these last two years. Miller was the architect of the Trump's administration's extreme immigration policies, spending tens of billions of taxpayer dollars to deploy mass federal agents to sow chaos in American streets. This is the same guy who smeared Renee Goode and Alex That was so, so disgusting, after federal agents murdered them. The man has no fidelity to any honor or truth. Americans want to send extremists like Miller packing. Trump wants to give him a title bump. Normally, the White House chief of staff is known as the president's gatekeeper. But it's clear that Stephen Miller intends to serve as the president's grim reaper. Donald Trump and Stephen Miller know this. The warm-up is over. The United States Senate is done doing your every wish. Our Democratic majority is going to fight the skyrocketing costs, incessant chaos, and flagrant corruption coming out of the White House with everything we have. I yield the floor and note the absence of a quorum. 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