Leader Schumer Floor Remarks On Promising Senate Democrats Will Stand Up For The American People During Reconciliation And Force Republicans To Take Vote After Vote On Trump’s[...]

Washington D.C. - Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke on the Senate floor on Senate Democrats' plan to propose amendments to Republicans' party line ICE and CBP funding bill that will fight for Americans as Senate Republicans continue to sell out to Donald Trump and his corruption. Below are Senator Schumer's remarks, which can also be viewed here.

After weeks of Republican infighting, we still haven't seen a draft of their Republican radical reconciliation bill. The American people don't need to see the bill text to know that Republicans are fighting for Donald Trump, not working families. Even without Trump's billion-dollar, taxpayer-funded ballroom - which Democrats successfully killed despite Republicans' best efforts - this bill is rotten through and through.

At a time when Americans can't afford gasoline, housing, health care, and food, Republicans won't spend a dime to bring down their costs but are more than happy to make them to fork over another $70 billion to Trump's masked agents who have unleashed chaos in our streets, and threaten to do it again. Americans are burning through their savings right now, but ICE and CBP are currently sitting on $100 billion that Trump and the GOP pumped into these rogue agencies last year. The American people need every penny they can get right now to lower costs - Trump's rogue agencies have more cash than they know what to do with.

Whenever we go into vote-a-rama, Democrats will be ready.

Every vote and every amendment we bring to the floor will demonstrate Democrats are standing up for the American people, and Republicans are selling out to Donald Trump.

Republicans will have to vote on costs. Republicans will have to vote on tariffs. Republicans will have to vote on Trump's disastrous war with Iran. Republicans will have to vote on ICE and Border Patrol's abuses of power.

Democrats want to lower your costs; Republicans want to waste your tax dollars.

Democrats want to rein in MAGA's chaos; Republicans want to let that chaos run wild. No guard rails.

Democrats are fighting Trump's corruption; Republicans are aiding and abetting it.

And Republicans aren't out of the woods yet - Democrats just getting started.

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