der Schumer Floor Remarks On Americans Facing Sky-Rocketing Costs While Senate Republicans Remain Complicit In Trump’s Affordability Crisis & Corruption

Washington D.C. - Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke on the Senate floor criticizing Senate Republicans for staying silent as costs rise to record highs, severely hurting American families. Below are Senator Schumer's remarks, which can also be viewed here.

Last week, we got new inflation numbers showing that prices are at their highest level in years.

Families are saving less as they struggle to make ends meet.

Americans are working harder, paying more, and getting less - that's Trump's economy at work.

From Trump's mouth to the American people's ears, he said: "I don't think about Americans' financial situation."

All Trump thinks about is building his golden ballroom, putting his name on a massive arch, lining his pockets with taxpayer dollars, and slapping his face onto a 250 dollar bill.

None of that lowers costs. None of that helps working families. All Trump's vanity projects do is waste time and money. And our Republican friends seem to go along with almost all of it. Maybe even all of it.

Meanwhile, two thirds of Americans - two thirds - say they have had to cut back on groceries the past few months because of skyrocketing costs.

This comes as new data shows household electricity prices have spiked by 18% since Trump took office.

With the hottest months now upon us, summer season, rising energy costs will only further strain families' pocketbooks.

The average home cooling costs could reach nearly $800 this summer, an 8.5% increase over last year and 37% more than in 2020.

A poll over the weekend found that 53% of all Americans say that the current cost of living is the worst they have ever seen. What happened to lowering costs "on day one," as Trump so proudly proclaimed?

And of course, where are Senate Republicans?

Instead of listening to the American people, working with Democrats to bring down costs, Republicans are working around the clock to aid and abet Trump's corruption, to build his vanity projects on the taxpayer's dime, and funnel tens of billions of dollars to his masked agents, who are already flush with cash.

Americans are screaming for relief, and all they hear back from Senate Republicans is silence. Complete, complicit silence.

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