Sen. Chuck Schumer said President Trump could not “proceed unchecked” on foreign policy and called on lawmakers to support a war powers resolution this week.
“What’s happening with Iran is typical of how the president has conducted foreign policy over the last three years,” Schumer, a New York Democrat, said Monday. “Erratic, impulsive, and without regard for long-term consequence.”
The Senate minority leader called Trump’s foreign policy “dangerously incompetent” and said he has had no success globally.
“We cannot say that any major problem area around the globe is better off than it was three years ago,” Schumer said.
Schumer said the war powers resolution, which comes up for a vote as soon as tomorrow, “is needed more than ever.”
The resolution, sponsored by Sen. Tim Kaine, a Virginia Democrat, would prohibit the president from taking action against Iran after 30 days unless expressly authorized by Congress.
Trump authorized a drone strike earlier this month that killed Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani.
Iran retaliated with strikes against the U.S. military in Iraq, but there were no casualties.
Earlier Monday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, denounced the resolution and said it would send the wrong message to Iran and the Middle East “at the very moment that America’s actions are challenging the calculus in Tehran for the better.”
