'Americans Don't Like It': Chuck Schumer Says GOP Are 'Tying Themselves In Knots' To Pass Budget

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During remarks on the Senate floor Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke about the Republican budget.

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00:01Now on the budget.

00:03We are not even 100 days into Donald Trump's second term, and his presidency is already

00:08a dumpster fire.

00:10His tariffs for one are the largest tax hike on American families in half a century since

00:15the Vietnam War.

00:16His bumbling trade war wiped at trillions of dollars from American retirement savings.

00:23Meanwhile, Elon Musk is crashing the Social Security website, shutting down local offices

00:29and disconnecting phone services.

00:32All these closures and firings show his real desire is to decimate Social Security.

00:38In March, employment for U.S. small businesses with 1 to 9 employees decreased by 98,000 jobs.

00:48Consumer confidence is at a 4-year low.

00:51Outlook for the economy is at a 12-year low.

00:56The odds of recession are at 60 percent.

01:00Some have argued, Larry Fink, that the recession has already started, according to the CEOs

01:06he's talked to.

01:08And what are Republicans in Congress doing about all this chaos, all this mess, all this

01:12severe harm to American families?

01:16Here's their answer.

01:17Cut taxes for billionaires.

01:20And why are they doing that?

01:21How are they going to pay for that?

01:23By taking away Americans' health care, making it harder for working families to put food

01:27on the table, slashing veterans' assistance and help for rural communities, kids, and Americans

01:32with disabilities.

01:34With the threats of a recession on the rise because of these tariffs, do House Republicans

01:39really want to sign their name on a bill that adds $37 trillion to the deficit?

01:47They should tread carefully.

01:49I said last Friday that for all the hand-wringing so far, the hard part for Republicans remains

01:56in front of them.

01:57The Republican agenda suffers from a fatal flaw.

02:01Its various pieces are all unpopular on their own.

02:05But when pieced together, it's even worse.

02:07That's why the Republicans are having such trouble coming together.

02:10It's not even to deal with Democrats.

02:12The House and Senate Republicans are at loggerheads.

02:15Members within each caucus, each Republican caucus, are at loggerheads.

02:19Why?

02:20Because the two policies are both unpopular, slashing Medicaid, reducing taxes on billionaires.

02:28Americans don't like it, so the Republicans are tying themselves in a knot and trying to

02:32get this done against the will of the American people.

02:37Republicans in Congress want to cut taxes for billionaires and pay for it by taking away

02:42Americans' health care, making it harder for working families to put food on the table.

02:48This is incredible.

02:49With the threats of a recession on the rise because of these tariffs, do House Republicans

02:56really want to sign their name to this bill, as I said before?

03:01The bottom line is, sooner or later, Republicans are going to have to face the music.

03:08There aren't enough procedural gimmicks in the world to change the reality.

03:12The Republican agenda on both sides, slashing programs like health care that people need,

03:18tax cuts for billionaires, it's unpopular on both sides.

03:22It's not going to get any more popular moving forward.

03:25And the Republicans will have to tie themselves in lots of pretzel knots to even get a bill

03:31passed, such a highly unpopular bill passed.

'Americans Don't Like It': Chuck Schumer Says GOP Are 'Tying Themselves In Knots' To Pass Budget

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