Josh Schroeder

Comms, @HouseForeign Dems // previously: DoD Public Affairs, @FP4America // views are my own

[House Foreign Affairs Committee Dems @HouseForeign]

Statement from Ranking Member @RepGregoryMeeks following the Senate’s approval of his Iran War Powers Resolution:

[House Foreign Affairs Committee Dems @HouseForeign]

🚨The Senate has passed @RepGregoryMeeks' War Powers Resolution🚨

Passing both chambers as a Concurrent Resolution, this WPR does not go to Trump for signature.

Under the War Powers Resolution it is binding on the president and directs him to cease hostilities against Iran.
https://t.co/6KA3pttUKg

[House Foreign Affairs Committee Dems @HouseForeign]

While ending this illegal war is better than disastrously doubling down, the admin’s steps are inconsistent with its own rhetoric about how it would approach any deal.

Trump officials repeatedly said sanctions relief would be tied to Iran addressing its nuclear program and terrorist proxies. Neither has been addressed, but the regime has been gifted sweeping sanctions relief it has dreamed of for decades.

[House Foreign Affairs Committee Dems @HouseForeign]

Rubio in March: We must start a war with Iran to destroy its missile program.

Trump today: Iran should have a few missiles, actually.

This war of choice was a strategic failure and should have never happened.

[House Foreign Affairs Committee Dems @HouseForeign]

Statement from Ranking Member @RepGregoryMeeks on the announced memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran:

[House Foreign Affairs Committee Dems @HouseForeign]

In 2015 the JCPOA stated explicitly that "under no circumstances will Iran ever seek, develop or ACQUIRE any nuclear weapons."

Now after ripping up that deal and launching a massively costly war of choice, Trump's just reviving that same language in a "new" deal.

[House Foreign Affairs Committee Dems @HouseForeign]

Ranking Members @RepGregoryMeeks and @SenatorShaheen sent a letter to Secretary Rubio demanding answers on the administration’s lack of progress to push a democratic transition forward in Venezuela

Read the letter in full: https://t.co/IDNR5a66Ak

[House Foreign Affairs Committee Dems @HouseForeign]

Pay to Play in 3 acts:

Act I: Trump illegally demolishes WH East Wing

Act II: Corporations "donate" $400M to build ballroom

Act III: Trump admin gifts donors with $50B in new government funding

In any other country, the State Department would sanction a government for this.

[House Foreign Affairs Committee Dems @HouseForeign]

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The House just PASSED @RepGregoryMeeks’ Ukraine Support Act.

This bipartisan vote makes clear: the American people stand with the people of Ukraine in their fight for freedom against Russian aggression.

[House Foreign Affairs Committee Dems @HouseForeign]

🚨BREAKING🚨

The House just PASSED @RepGregoryMeeks' Iran War Powers Resolution.

This is a loud and unambiguous message to Donald Trump on behalf of the American people: it’s time to end his deeply unpopular and illegal war of choice in Iran.

[House Foreign Affairs Committee Dems @HouseForeign]

This is dangerous for our national security.

Instead of starting costly new wars, Trump should focus on doing the basics.

More than 100 ambassador posts are unfilled, including key postings in the Middle East, South Asia, and Europe.

[House Foreign Affairs Committee Dems @HouseForeign]

Our government has a responsibility to help Americans abroad.

The US already has domestic facilities specifically designed to safely care for Ebola patients.

The Trump admin should bring Americans home and help them, not outsource that responsibility to a foreign government.

[House Foreign Affairs Committee Dems @HouseForeign]

Each day Trump’s war of choice drags on is another day American troops are in harm’s way, everyday Americans pay more at the gas pump, and billions more tax dollars are diverted from healthcare to bombs. 

Trump: “I couldn’t care less.”

Disgraceful.

[House Foreign Affairs Committee Dems @HouseForeign]

Trump and Rubio destroyed USAID, defunded US global health programs, and withdrew the US from the WHO—while MAGA loyalists continue to mismanage the CDC.

The inevitable outcomes are a global community more susceptible to disease outbreaks and a surge in preventable deaths.

[House Foreign Affairs Committee Dems @HouseForeign]

Funding democracy and development programs abroad isn't waste—but a cost-effective investment in our future.

The real waste that Congress should be scrutinizing:

- Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund
- Trump’s $1 billion WH ballroom
- Trump's $1 billion/day war of choice in Iran

[House Foreign Affairs Committee Dems @HouseForeign]

Trump’s proven incapable of re-opening the Strait of Hormuz, so the administration is continuing to coddle Putin in desperate attempt to lower energy costs. Amateur hour.

That’s billions more in sanctions relief for the Kremlin. Zero relief for the American people.

[House Foreign Affairs Committee Dems @HouseForeign]

Rubio's State Dept has made it harder for Afghan allies and those fleeing actual conflict to get a visa or seek refuge in the United States.

Yet the Trump admin will expedite a visa for a fugitive because he’s a perceived political and culture-war ally.

Unabashed corruption.

[House Foreign Affairs Committee Dems @HouseForeign]

If a president of another country stole $1.8 billion from taxpayers for a secret slush fund, the State Department would call it corruption and theft.

And the State Department would be right to do so.

[Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer]

Real Iraq War vibes here. Classified intelligence shared with reporters to sell a war to a skeptical public

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Donald Trump doesn’t think about Americans’ financial situation, but he sure thinks about his own.

At the same time Americans are struggling to afford gas and groceries under the Republican agenda, Trump is doing everything he can to make sure he gets as rich as possible.