JUST IN: Chuck Schumer Predicts Brutal Reception For Trump At Knick's Game

Well, just about everyone in America hates Trump's slush fund. But every Senate Republican but one, and every Senate Republican but one, is culpable for allowing Trump to go forward with his slush fund again. People in America hate the fund. Every Senate Republican allowed Trump to go forward with his slush fund. They supported a reconciliation bill that had no restraints on Trump's corrupt slush fund, even after Democrats forced vote after vote trying to ban the fund. The American people will remember how Senate Republicans sided with Trump instead of them, and it doesn't bode well for the GOP. Yesterday, Trump showed how empty Todd Blanchett's promise is to drop the MAGA slush fund, asked whether he'd stop trying to give cash payouts to his corrupt cronies, convicted criminals, and January 6th insurrectionists. Trump said, if it was up to me, I'd pay them the kind of money that they deserve. What they deserve? The only thing January 6th insurrectionists deserve from maiming police officers is to sit in a prison cell. But Donald Trump and Senate Republicans think the rioters deserve a cut of Americans' paychecks. Trump went on to say, quote, I think the weaponization fund is a great idea, and so do many other Republicans. Listen to that, America. Donald Trump has no intention of dropping his slush fund. You don't have to be a senator to see just how corrupt, just how crooked Trump's slush fund scheme is. But Senate Republicans chose not, not to outlaw Trump's plan to line his pockets with American tax dollars. Senate Republicans are complicit in Trump's corruption. Democrats set up a procedure and used reconciliation to show exactly where Republicans stood on the slush fund, and the American people were aghast. Republicans could have supported Democratic amendments to ban the slush fund permanently. Republicans could have voted for our amendment to prevent taxpayer-funded payouts to violent January 6th rioters. Republicans could have stood with the American people, but instead they reaffirmed their loyalty to Trump and his corrupt administration. Now yesterday marked 100 days since Donald Trump launched one of the most foolish misadventures in the history of American foreign policy. Trump launched his disastrous war with Iran without a clear objective, without a coherent strategy, and without a care for how it would endanger our brave service members and hurt the American people. 100 days later, Trump still has no idea how to extricate America from this mess of his own making. And he still doesn't seem to care that the American people are struggling to bear the costs at the gas pumps every day. Trump said it himself, I don't think about American financial situation, he doesn't think about it. The number one issue facing the American people, and he doesn't think about it. What kind of president is that? Trump better start thinking about American's financial situation because it becomes more and more dire, Americans are becoming more and more livid. Costs on everything from gasoline to groceries to consumer goods are through the roof because of Trump and his war. American families have spent an extra $750 on average these past 100 days to meet the rising costs of Trump's war. And every time Americans go to the pump and see a gallon of gasoline costing well over $4, they know who to blame, Donald Trump. For 100 days, Trump has claimed that peace is just a way, sorry, for 100 days, Trump has claimed that peace is just days away, only for negotiations to crumble over and over and over again. Trump's efforts at peace by press release won't stop the fighting, Congress needs to reassert its powers under the Constitution and end this war. Soon, Senate Democrats will force another vote on our War Powers Resolution to end the war. The ninth opportunity we have given Republicans to do their jobs and dig themselves and Trump out of this hole. The walls are closing in on Trump and the U.S. economy. Republicans need to find their courage and end this war. On the Knicks, playing tonight, New Yorkers love the New York Knicks. Some of us remember the good old days when the Knicks won the championship with DeBuscher and Bradley at the forwards, Willis Reed at center, and Earl LePearl and Clyde as the point guards. Those were the glory days, and the glory days are back. So with the New York Knicks set to play the San Antonio Spurs in a few hours, tonight ought to be all about the game, the players, and the fans. But Donald Trump wants to make tonight all about himself, like he always does. Midtown has to shut down, bars near the Garden are about to take a huge night on what should be their biggest night of the year, and free watch parties near the arena have been canceled because Trump can't bear letting anyone else be the center of attention for one night. After waiting nearly three decades to see the Knicks play in the finals, New Yorkers deserve better than this. Knicks fans would give Trey Young, wearing a Reggie Miller jersey, a warmer welcome than the one they'll give Trump when he walks into Madison Square Garden tonight. Knicks fans know that tonight is about New York, not about any one New Yorker. Best of luck to the Knicks tonight, and you'll hear of us from the streets of New York to the Senate floor. Knicks in four. I yield the floor.