Leader Schumer Floor Remarks Following Senate Passage Of The “Big, Ugly Betrayal”

Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor following final passage of the “Big, Ugly Betrayal,” an unprecedented tax break for billionaires that will devastate American families. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks:

Today, Senate Republicans betrayed the American people and covered this chamber in shame.

In one fell swoop, Senate Republicans passed the biggest tax breaks for billionaires ever seen, paid for by ripping healthcare away from millions of Americans, taking food out of the mouths of hungry kids.

This is not a “Big Beautiful Bill” at all.

That is why I moved on the floor to strike the title.

It is now called “The Act,” but it is really a “Big, Ugly Betrayal.”

Because of this bill, tens of millions will lose health insurance, millions of jobs will disappear, people will get sick and die, kids will go hungry, and the debt will explode to levels we have never seen, all so that billionaires and corporate special interests get a permanent tax break.

This bill is not what the country needs. This is not what the American people want.

And I must say this: Republicans bent and twisted and pushed the rules and the norms of the Senate to get this bill done.

And they have done grave damage to this chamber; they did it all just so they can pass tax breaks for billionaires.

Today’s vote will haunt our Republican colleagues for years to come.

As the American people see the damage that is done, as hospitals close, as people are laid off, as costs go up, as the debt increases, they will see what our colleagues have done, and they will remember it.

The American people will not forget the betrayal, the betrayal that took place today.

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