Schumer warns Trump budget bill Medicaid cuts could jeopardize GOP senators: 'We Are All Going to Die Act'

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., connected Wednesday renamed President Donald Trump's "big, beauteous bill" the "We're All Going to Die Act," slamming the bundle implicit cuts to Medicaid. 

The Senate Minority Leader said Republican senators who enactment Trump's fund measure are "tenured astatine best, suicidal astatine worst," implying a ballot for the legislative package volition person antagonistic consequences astatine the ballot box. 

"For galore Americans, wellness attraction sum is the quality betwixt beingness and death," Schumer said. His caller sanction for Trump's fund measure comes from a caller remark by Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa. In effect to jeers from a assemblage astir however cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) would origin radical to die, Ernst retorted astatine a caller municipality hallway event, "Well, we’re each going to die."

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Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., astatine the Capitol Tuesday, Jun. 3, 2025.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

"According to Ernst, 'Fear not. We're going to dice anyway.' Tell that, the American radical person heard. Let maine beryllium clear. Democrats are ready. We are acceptable to fight,' Schumer said. "We are doubling down. We're acceptable to amusement Americans what's truly astatine involvement here, due to the fact that this combat won't beryllium won successful conscionable the Capitol. As Abe Lincoln said, nationalist sentiment is everything. And erstwhile nationalist sentiment hears astir this 'We're All Going to Die Act,' they're going to hatred it, and they're going to archer their senators they hatred it. And if the senators deliberation they tin get distant with a yes ballot and explicate it, they're sadly mistaken. The cuts are excessively deep. The cuts are excessively real. The cuts are excessively devastating for people."

He continued, "Why are they being truthful mean? Why are they being truthful cruel? And wherefore are they being truthful politically tenured astatine at best, suicidal astatine worst? All to springiness taxation breaks to billionaires. They are successful full obeisance. Donald Trump is, and his colleagues are to precise very, the tiny radical of precise wealthy, greedy radical who say, 'I don't attraction what you bash to everyone else, chopped my taxes. And by the way, get escaped of immoderate regulations.'" 

Schumer said that the Congressional Budget Office recovered that the estimated fig of radical who would suffer their wellness security sum if Trump’s fund measure passes could summation from 13.7 cardinal to up to arsenic galore arsenic 16 cardinal people. 

Senate Majority Leader Sen. John Thune says the 'Big, Beautiful Bill" remains connected way for the Jul. 4 deadline preferred by the Trump administration. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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"New calculations amusement Medicare is nether the knife," Schumer said.

A fistful of Republican senators person expressed hesitation to Trump's "big, beauteous bill" implicit concerns it volition summation the nationalist indebtedness and fund ceiling, but Senate Majority Leader John Leader said the precocious enclosure remains connected way to walk the bundle by a July 4 deadline arsenic negotiations are ongoing. Trump and the White House, meanwhile, importune the measure volition evoke monolithic maturation for the nation. 

Schumer alleged Trump "is conscionable lying astir the bill." 

"We've been told 11 cardinal radical chopped disconnected from affordable nutrient taxation cuts for billionaires. "We're All Going to Die Bill.’ And that shows the callousness, the callousness of this Republican bulk successful the House and the Republican bulk successful the Senate. Repeal and replace. It's that by different name, that by different name." 

Senate Majority Leader John Thune is signaling that changes are apt successful the House's mentation of President Trump's "big, beauteous bill." (Getty Images)

Schumer addressed Republicans' pledge to combat waste, fraud and maltreatment by making the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts imperishable done the bill. 

"Now, Trump and the Republicans assertion they privation to combat fraud. Bull, bull," helium said. 

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"Let maine archer our Republican Senate colleagues what volition beryllium enacted is not Donald Trump's soothing words, but the existent world of harsh cuts wherever radical suffer wellness care, wherever people's premiums spell up, wherever hospitals close, nursing homes close, and radical are laid off," Schumer claimed. "So anyone who thinks they're voting for the bully words of Donald Trump volition look a harsh world erstwhile this is implemented."