IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT

  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, how long will Republicans let Trump's
secret police continue to sow chaos and violence in our American
streets?
  For the second time in less than a week, ICE agents fatally shot
someone, first in Texas and again in Maine yesterday.
  There are still a lot of unanswered questions about these two
shootings, but what little we do know is disturbing, to say the
least. Both cases appear to have involved ICE agents who were not
wearing body cameras--killing individuals who were not the subject of
the agents' warrant.

  Why were these two people shot at and killed? We don't know the
answers. There are no body cameras yet. There are no body cameras as we
would require. The ICE agents in Texas were also riding in unmarked
vehicles. If Republicans had passed our bill, there would be body
cameras, proper agent ID, warrant requirements, and other commonsense
reforms, and these killings might not have happened.
  I hope our Republican colleagues are listening. If they had passed
our reforms, these killings might not have happened. With those
reforms, we would have at least had a better idea as to what exactly
happened so that we could have avoided further killings in the future.
Instead, Republicans poured tens of billions of dollars into Trump's
rogue Agencies with no strings attached--no strings attached. While
every other police department in America has rules, our Republican
colleagues and Trump said: No rules. Do whatever you want. And look at
the results. Look at what has happened.
  It is dangerous to give ICE agents free rein when we expect every
other law enforcement agency in the country to follow basic codes of
conduct. Allowing unidentified Federal agents to roam through American
streets, to

kick down people's doors without a warrant, to shoot people dead in the
street without any--any--provocation, as it might well have been here,
is an invitation for state-sanctioned violence, not an immigration
policy.
  I am calling on the Trump administration to release all information
related to these two shootings, and we need to conduct independent
investigations of each.
  The American people need to know how and why this chaos is spreading
through their streets. Republicans who refuse to go along with real
reforms of ICE--reforms that we see in every police department in the
country--should pivot, change their minds, realize these shootings were
just awful and work with us to reform this rogue Agency. The American
people need to know, of course, how and why this chaos is spreading
through their streets, and we need a complete investigation that is
independent.

                                  IRAN

  Mr. SCHUMER. Now, Mr. President, on Iran and the NDAA, when all the
Trump administration can say about his disastrous war with Iran is that
Vietnam was worse--a point Trump made yesterday--he reveals the scale
of his failure. This is what Donald Trump said. The only thing he can
say is that Vietnam was worse.
  Oh my God, a war that killed close to 50,000 Americans, a war that
lasted almost a decade, a war that ripped America apart in ways that
took decades to recover is what he compares Iran to? Oh my God.
  Trump's supposed cease-fire deal has completely collapsed. Our troops
are coming under attack. The Strait of Hormuz is a minefield, and gas
prices are going back up. Donald Trump is totally out of his depth. In
fact, Donald Trump is drowning in the Strait of Hormuz because he has
no plan. He had no plan when he got America into this war, and he has
no plan on how to get us out. Trump started the war without
authorization, without a strategy, without an exit.
  The reason that we have war powers acts is to force an administration
to think through the consequences of going to war ahead of time. Trump,
of course, didn't listen. Finally, after weeks, bipartisan majorities
in both Chambers of Congress voted to end it. We had tried and tried.
Finally, enough Republicans joined us, but Donald Trump ignored them.
  Now the White House has formally notified Congress that hostilities
have resumed; that American strikes are underway again; and that our
forces remain positioned for more. Yet Republicans want the Senate to
take up the NDAA--the Defense bill--as though none of this is
happening, as though Congress can debate the Nation's central national
security bill while ignoring the Nation's most urgent national security
crisis. We cannot.
  I will be voting no.
  The President is waging an unauthorized war in defying bipartisan
majorities in Congress and in refusing to level with the American
people about the cost, the mission, or the endgame. The NDAA cannot
become a permission slip for that recklessness that we see occurring in
Iran. Donald Trump does not get to drag the American people deeper into
a war he cannot explain and does not know how to end and then demand
Congress look the other way.
  Donald Trump and the administration have no authorization, no
strategy, no peace, no blank check. Therefore, a day after the
President told Congress that his war is back on, I am a no--a strong
no--on the NDAA.

                          ELECTION TASK FORCE

  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, on this Trump election task force--it
just gets crazier and crazier with this administration. Yesterday, the
White House announced that Trump and his election task force will
reveal intelligence reports that supposedly corroborate his baseless
lies about the 2020 election. Give me a break.
  Donald, start focusing on lowering Americans' costs, not on your
conspiracy theory that the 2020 elections were stolen from you. You
don't have proof. You haven't come up with proof for 6 years because
there is no proof, Donald Trump. You haven't come up with the proof
because it isn't there. There is no proof.
  Trump should get off all of this nonsense, all of this wishful
thinking, all of this lunacy and focus on what people actually care
about--their higher costs. If Trump thought about November 2026 half as
much as he thinks about 2020, maybe his party wouldn't be scrambling
right now.
  Apparently, Trump also plans to say that Senators Ossoff and Warnock
were illegitimate because of election fraud. How desperate can Trump
get? He is flailing. His effort to overturn what happened in 2020 is a
mission impossible. He ought to wake up, smell the coffee, and abandon
this frivolous, ludicrous, diversionary effort. Trump's obvious
desperation might be amusing if it weren't so dangerous. Without
question, it is part of Trump's effort to subvert the 2026 midterm
elections.
  The whole reason Republicans are in their current mess is that Trump
refuses to drop his radical SAVE Act--to strip millions of Americans of
their voting rights. Trump has made clear, once again, who plans to
force a shutdown--Donald Trump; yes, Donald Trump. Yesterday, Trump
said Republicans have to get rid of the filibuster and pass the SAVE
Act ``otherwise we're going to have a shutdown.'' That is what he said
yesterday.
  So, Americans, hear this: If there is a shutdown, it is on Donald
Trump's back.
  Donald, do you remember the last time you demanded a shutdown when
Nancy and I were in your office? It didn't work out too well for you
then, and it won't work out too well for you now.
  America, hear this: If there is a shutdown, it is on Donald Trump's
back.
  Unless Trump changes his course, realizes the SAVE Act cannot pass,
and starts working on more productive things, we could be headed for
another Trump shutdown.
  I yield the floor.
  I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

                           EXECUTIVE CALENDAR

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will
proceed to executive session to resume consideration of the following
nomination, which the clerk will report.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read the nomination of Matthew
A. Schwartz, of New York, to be United States Circuit Judge for the
Second Circuit.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority whip.