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Floor Speech
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Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, 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 is a brutal Republican pincer move: Donald Trump's tariffs raise costs on the one side, and Senate Republicans are cutting Medicaid and pushing billionaire tax breaks on the other.
Tonight, Senate 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 Medicare and Medicaid. At each opportunity, Republicans 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, 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 even have more trouble in the weeks ahead.
Republicans' obeisance to Donald Trump's increasingly unpopular agenda will cost them dearly in the future.
Madam President, I would like to thank the staffs for the great jobs they have done, all the incredible staff for making this possible.
Thank you to the floor staff who has been with us many hours. Thank you to the cloakrooms. Thank you to the doorkeepers, the Capitol Police, the pages, the custodian and maintenance staff and everyone else.
I want to thank, particularly, Nate Oursler in the Democratic cloakroom who has been the hero of the past couple of days, working relentlessly to keep things moving for Senate Democrats from the moment we gaveled in to the moment we have adjourned.
And a particular thank-you to my great staff. They have done an amazing, amazing job and made this very difficult effort run smoothly as our Members depart at an earlier hour than they are used to, and we accommodated as many amendments as we possibly could.
I would like to thank them all and a particular shout-out. It is a great staff. I could name so many, but to Meghan Taira because she is the chief cook and bottle washer on our side who gets this all done so smoothly and so effortlessly.
This will be--and I am sure she is happy about this--her last reconciliation, her last budget reconciliation--but we know what a great job she has done not just for me, not just for Senate Democrats, not just for the whole Senate but for the country over the decades. So, Meghan, we wish you the best.
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