Leader Schumer Floor Remarks Denouncing The Trump Administration’s Sloppy And Reckless Budget Proposal

Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor to bring attention to the sloppy and reckless the budget proposed by the Trump administration, which cuts funding to programs necessary for average Americans to stay afloat. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:

If you asked AI to come up with a federal budget that utterly screws over average Americans, do you know what AI would come up with? Donald Trump’s latest budget proposal.

So today, let’s look at Donald Trump’s so-called “skinny” budget a little more closely, it’s hard to believe this is a serious proposal.

If enacted, the Trump budget would completely gut public safety, something they say they want to strengthen.

Trump’s own FBI Director, Kash Patel, one of the most loyal Trumpites, testified in the House yesterday that the FBI can’t meet its mission to keep Americans safe with the cuts in the Trump budget.

If Kash Patel, one of Donald Trump’s most loyal acolytes, says this budget won’t work, who else is going to come out against it? How can we take this budget seriously? If Patel is against it, so are many other cabinet officers, publicly or privately.

How carefully was it even done? Do the people who put it out know they're slashing the FBI?

The budget has sloppy and reckless written all over it, and even Kash Patel agrees.

And that’s not all. The Trump budget would also strangle American families. It is an all-out assault on American health care. Under Donald Trump’s budget, America’s housing crisis would go from bad to worse.

Hell will freeze over before Democrats entertain anything remotely close to Donald Trump’s budget. This budget proposal is dead on arrival in the Senate, and anything close to it will go nowhere as well.

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