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WASHINGTON: Senior Democratic leaders in Congress have sharply questioned President Donald Trump’s claim that a US–Iran peace deal is near, saying there is no evidence to support the administration’s assertions and that lawmakers have received no briefing on any negotiations.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Congress had not been informed about any diplomatic progress and rejected the president’s repeated claims that an agreement was imminent.
“We haven’t received any briefings and there’s no reason to believe the president at this point in time. The war is going on for over 100 days and he has said 38 different times that a deal was close or that the war was ending or that it was effectively over, 38 different times,” Congressman Jeffries said in a television interview this weekend. “There’s no reason to believe him at this point. He is divorced from reality.”
According to the Democratic leader, the reality of the American people “is seeing that we’ve lost the lives of over a dozen patriotic service men and women, hundreds have been injured. Over $100 billion in taxpayer money has been spent.”
