Schumer, Democrats plot coordinated resistance to Trump's 'one ugly bill'

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is coordinating with his colleagues successful the House to propulsion backmost against Senate Republicans’ efforts to ram President Donald Trump’s privation database of argumentation desires done the Senate.

In a missive to Senate Democrats connected Sunday, Schumer, D-N.Y., laid retired a multipronged strategy to inflict arsenic overmuch symptom connected Republicans arsenic imaginable successful the fund reconciliation process, the legislative strategy the GOP is employing to sidestep negotiating with Democrats to beforehand the president’s priorities.

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and President Donald Trump (Getty Images)

While legislature Republicans don’t request Democrats to determination the colossal measure to Trump’s desk, Schumer wants to marque the process arsenic uncomfortable arsenic imaginable arsenic Senate Republicans statesman a astir monthlong sprint to enactment their fingerprints connected what Trump deemed a "big, beauteous bill."

The apical Senate Democrat is coordinating with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and the apical Democrats connected important House committees to "share firsthand penetration from their process and cardinal Republican responsibility lines" with their Senate counterparts.

"Based connected Senate Republicans’ nationalist comments, it’s wide that if this reckless reconciliation measure passes the Senate it is precise apt to incorporate changes, forcing it to beryllium sent backmost to the House of Representatives," Schumer wrote. "That’s wherefore we indispensable beryllium agreed with our House Democratic colleagues to combat this battle connected moving families."

Indeed, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said overmuch of the statement and consequent tweaks to the measure would absorption connected uncovering deeper spending cuts. The House’s offering acceptable a extremity of $1.5 trillion successful spending cuts implicit the adjacent decade, but immoderate Senate Republicans privation to deed $2 trillion, portion a smaller cohort of fiscal hawks privation to spell adjacent deeper.

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Sens. John Barrasso, left, John Thune and Tom Cotton (Getty)

Thune said that Republicans' main absorption during the adjacent period would beryllium ensuring that Trump's first-term taxation cuts are made imperishable with the monolithic measure and not allowed to expire by the extremity of the twelvemonth connected the Senate floor, marking the Senate's instrumentality connected Monday. 

"We are not going to fto that happen, and our biggest absorption this period is completing this taxation alleviation authorities with the extremity of getting the last measure to the president earlier the Fourth of July," helium said. "It’s going to beryllium a precise engaged month, Mr. President." 

In all, 10 Senate committees volition beryllium tasked with sifting done the monolithic bill’s contents, which see the president’s argumentation desires connected taxes, immigration, energy, defence and the nationalist debt.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Republicans celebrated passing Trump's ‘big, beauteous bill’ connected Thursday. (Getty Images)

Schumer’s edict comes arsenic those committees cogwheel up to marque their ain revisions to the measure to, successful part, autumn successful enactment with their ain argumentation and spending desires and to besides comply with Senate rules.

He noted that Senate Democrats person been moving "overtime" to people a litany of policies successful the GOP’s program that "are successful wide usurpation of the reconciliation rules and, successful immoderate cases, an battle connected our precise democracy."

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Some Republicans already person issues with definite policies successful the bill, similar cuts to Medicaid oregon the program to determination up the timeline to signifier retired greenish vigor taxation credits ushered successful by the Biden administration.

Schumer besides prodded Democrats to proceed aggressively denouncing the measure connected the crushed successful their location states and districts, arguing that "if the American radical genuinely knew however profoundly devastating, damaging, and deceitful this Republican program is, they volition cull it."

"Republicans’ ‘One Ugly Bill’ is simply a farce; an onslaught connected the values that marque America great," helium wrote. "We cognize the archetypal 4 months of Donald Trump’s presidency person been catastrophic for the American people. It is our work to combat for American families, to halt the damage, and marque definite Republicans are held accountable."