Chuck Schumer: “I thank the leader for letting me borrow his chart for a minute. So he has pointed to each of these bar graphs, the…”

“I thank the leader for letting me borrow his chart for a minute. So he has pointed to each of these bar graphs, the percentage of Democratic Senators who supported Biden-era CRs. Yes. That is true. Guess why. In each case, Democrats negotiated with Republicans and said: Let's have a bipartisan bill. The leader says: It is a clean bill. It is a partisan bill. Not once were Democrats asked for what input should be in the bill. We were not told about it, we were not asked about it, et cetera; nor did Speaker Johnson talk to Hakeem Jeffries. You cannot pass legislation in the Senate when it comes to appropriations unless it is bipartisan. So the leader will say it is clean. No, it is not clean because there was no discussion. Every one of these times, I went to the Republican leader and said: What do you need? What do you want? In many cases, we had to significantly change the bill. One of our bills had aid to Ukraine. The Republicans didn't want it. To avoid shutting down the government, we talked to them, negotiated, and took it out. But not once--not once--was there any bipartisan discussion or talk on this bill. We wanted to give our Republican colleagues a chance. That is why some of us back in March said OK. But we saw what happened after that. We saw a decimation of healthcare in the BBB--so bad right now that 80 percent of Americans support renewing the tax credits of the ACA.…”