Leader Schumer Floor Remarks Following Senate Republicans Passing Their Budget Resolution That Guts Essential Programs And Increases Costs For The American People In Order To[...]

Washington, D.C. - Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor following the passage of the Senate Republicans' budget which would gut essential programs and raise costs for the American people, all to provide a tax cut for billionaires. Below are Senator Schumer's remarks:

Donald Trump has betrayed the American people. Tonight Senate Republicans joined him in that betrayal.

In voting for this bill, Senate Republicans sided with billionaires, against the middle class, in total obeisance to Donald Trump.

The odds of a recession in America are surging because of Donald Trump's tariffs, and Senate Republicans have gone along. In fact, they are aiding and abetting it.

It's a brutal Republican pincer move: Donald Trump's tariffs raise costs on one side, and Senate Republicans are cutting Medicaid and pushing billionaire tax breaks on the other.

Tonight, Democrats gave Senate Republicans the chance to hit the kill switch on Donald Trump's tariffs, on DOGE, on the attacks against Social Security and Medicaid and Medicaid. And at each opportunity they refused.

If Republicans ever chose to snap out of their Trump hypnosis for even a minute, they could immediately use this Senate procedure to halt the tariffs, halt DOGE, and halt all of Donald Trump's chaos. They know deep down his policies are a disaster. Instead, Senate Republicans are chaining themselves to the MAGA anchor and leaping into the ocean.

But for all their difficulty in passing this bill over the past week, the hardest part for Republicans is still in front of them. They are going to have even more trouble in the weeks ahead.

Republicans' obeisance to Donald Trump's increasingly unpopular agenda will cost them dearly in the future.

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