Booker and “Senate Six” “Declare War on Iran War”
| Booker and “Senate Six” “Declare War on Iran War”
Booker on new war powers push: “We’re not going to let the Senate go on with business as usual.” |
| WASHINGTON, D.C. — In case you missed it, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) and six of his Democratic colleagues are “on the war powers warpath” in response to President Trump’s reckless and unconstitutional war on Iran, readying a “volley of war powers resolutions,” and “threatening to use every procedural tool at their disposal” in order to exercise the Senate’s constitutional role in matters of war and peace, hold this administration accountable and require debate over the Iran War in the Senate.
SEE FOR YOURSELF: MS NOW The Rachel Maddow Show Sen. Booker: “I think what we are witnessing here is the most monumental strategic stupidity exhibited by any president in our lifetime. I mean it is utterly outrageous that he is at one time begging people to come help with the mess that he created, causing the worst oil shock we have seen in our lifetime, begging people to help and then when they are not racing to help him, after he has already unleashed chaotic tariffs on them, after he has already insulted them before, demeaned and degraded them, didn’t go America first but America alone.” POLITICO
CNN State of the Union Sen. Booker: I understand past presidents have drifted and taken power from the article one branch of government. But at this scale, at this magnitude, at this cost, why is Congress just laying down and doing nothing? Because if we allow this to happen, then we give Trump the permission to say, "Okay, I finished with Venezuela. I went to Iran. Now I'm going to go to Cuba. Now I'm going to go to North Korea." It is outrageous and I never conceived that we could have this level of a military engagement without the people's house, Congress, doing something about it.” The Hill Sen. Booker: “This is a massive military undertaking, costing American taxpayers billions and billions of dollars and tragically costing 13 lives. So I understand past presidents have drifted and taken power from the Article 1 branch of government. But at this scale, at this magnitude, at this cost, why is Congress just laying down and doing nothing?” JAMIE STIEHM
Sen. Booker: "The president jumped into a war of choice with no oversight, no hearings. The Senate has to do our job." Sen. Booker: "This is the choice of one reckless individual. All that an authoritarian government needs is for the Senate and House to do nothing." MS NOW Morning Joe Sen. Booker: “You know what we're demanding is what the American people want. Like you have people sitting at home watching this president drive up their health care costs, drive up their fuel costs, cut their student lunch programs for their kids, cut the VA benefits for people who've been to war and come home. All while now he's expending billions and billions of dollars on this unilateral decision to go to war. and they're saying, "Hey, where's my Congress? You're supposed to provide a check and a balance. You're supposed to provide oversight. You're supposed to provide investigation. Damn, you're the most deliberative body and you're not even deliberating over this war. That's unacceptable." And so what we hope to do is bring these leaders before Congress and provide that oversight that is urgent right now when Americans are paying the ultimate sacrifice for Donald Trump's war. And let me say one last thing. I don't think this is defensible.” CNN The Source with Kaitlan Collins Sen. Booker: “This is a major military conflict with a major power in the Middle East that American lives are being lost and the Senate of the United States of America is rolling over and doing nothing. No oversight, no hearings, no checks and balances. Republicans in the Senate are letting this president act unilaterally, which the Constitution says there's no way you a president can indiscriminately pick countries he wants to invade. That power lies with Congress. But Congress has got to use their power. And that's why the four of us along with Senator Murphy, Senator Duckworth, and others are saying enough. No more business as usual. Our country is in crisis. The costs for average Americans are skyrocketing. And this president wants to spend tens of billions of dollars in his adventures overseas without coming to Congress.” Semafor
NOTUS Sen. Booker: “We’re not going to let the Senate go on with business as usual.” CNBC
The Hill
Sen. Booker: “We have collectively agreed that we’re going to use the levers that we have. We should be having hearings on the biggest military engagement since the war in Afghanistan.” ###
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