"[I]t is absurd for [Republicans] to expect Democrats to act as business as usual and engage in a bipartisan appropriations process to fund the government, while they concurrently plot to pass a purely partisan rescissions bill to defund those same programs negotiated on a bipartisan basis behind the..."
"If Republicans cave to Donald Trump and gut these investments agreed to by both parties, that would be an affront — a huge affront — to the bipartisan appropriations process."
"To honor the lives of those lost, we have a responsibility to the American people to determine whether preventable failures contributed to this tragedy — and to ensure that it never happens again."
"Americans will pay the price of this perfidy for generations."
"The Republicans are still in disarray. They’re hiding from us all kinds of things."
"Republicans are doing something the Senate has never, never done before — deploying fake math and accounting gimmicks to hide the true cost of their bill."
"This bill is nothing but a stickup: Working families get robbed, billionaires get paid."
"This is the biggest debt increase in U.S. history."
"They don’t have a bill; they’re delaying."
"Senate Republicans are scrambling to pass a radical bill released to the public in the dead of night."
"What did Republicans do in the dead of night last night? They made their bill even worse than any draft we have seen."