Leader Schumer Floor Remarks Urging His Senate Colleagues To Vote Against Republicans’ Attempt To Obscure The Cost Of The “Big, Ugly Betrayal”

Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor before the vote on Republicans’ budget gimmick for the “Big, Ugly Betrayal” – Current Policy Baseline – urging his colleagues to not obscure the true cost of these billionaire giveaways. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks:

We're about to vote on something that we have never seen before in the Senate.

And rather than be honest with the American people about the true costs of these billionaire giveaways – and, by the way, I didn't hear Donald Trump campaigning on tax breaks for billionaires, which is the main thrust for this bill, he wouldn't tell them about that.

But Republicans are doing something the Senate has never done before – deploying fake math, accounting gimmicks to hide the true cost of the bill.

Look, Republicans can use whatever budgetary gimmicks they want to try to make the math work on paper, but you can't paper over the real-life economic consequences of adding tens of trillions to the debt.

And that's what this does. Make no mistake about it and it's the way we've always calculated things.

So to vote yes on this, make no mistake about it my colleagues, will further erode the Senate.

I urge a no vote.

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