Leader Schumer Floor Remarks On Republicans Prioritizing Tax Cuts For Billionaires Over Essential Programs For American Families

Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor following Senate Republicans passing their budget resolution last week and ahead of House Republicans continuing the same agenda, which is prioritizing tax cuts for billionaires at the expense of middle-class Americans. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:

Last week, Senate Republicans passed their budget resolution clearing the way to pass massive tax giveaways for Donald Trump’s billionaire buddies.

From the moment Donald Trump was sworn in, everything Republicans have done can be boiled down to this: billionaires win, American families lose.

That’s the Republican agenda in a nutshell.

This week, it’s House Republicans’ turn.

Today, I want to say this about the House Republican plan: It doesn’t matter which path Republicans ultimately go with—one bill, two bills, fifty bills—at the end of the day, Republicans are very clear they want to cut taxes for billionaires and have the American people pay the cost.

Republicans want to perhaps push the biggest cuts to Medicaid ever so billionaires can have another tax break. That is morally politically bankrupt.

With a government shutdown just a few weeks away, what are Republicans doing?

They are spending precious time trying to cater to the wishes of the absolutely richest people in America, instead of working to avoid a disastrous halt of services that help tens of millions of middle class American families. Their priorities are utterly skewed and upside down.

If House Republicans proceed this week, the backlash, upsetness, anger House Republicans saw in their town-halls last week is only going to get far more thunderous.

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