Chuck Schumer: “today, Senate Republicans have to decide: choose the American people or bow down to Donald Trump and his coterie of…”

“today, Senate Republicans have to decide: choose the American people or bow down to Donald Trump and his coterie of billionaires because this bill, as we have said for months, steals people's healthcare, jacks up their electricity bills, takes away their jobs--all to pay for tax breaks for billionaires. All month, Senate Democrats have put this bill on trial in the court of public opinion. We have exposed how it steals Medicaid for more than 16 million Americans. We have exposed how it takes away food benefits from millions of hungry kids. We have exposed how this bill increases the debt by $3.5 trillion to bankroll billionaire tax breaks. We have shown how this bill increases the debt $1 trillion more than the House bill. We have shown how this bill cuts Medicaid even more than the House bill. We have shown how this bill kills climate jobs even more than the House bill. With every rewrite, Senate Republicans have made their bill more extreme, pro-billionaire, and more hostile to people's healthcare and livelihoods. Why do they do that? There is a small group on that side of the aisle--the MAGA hard-rightwingers--who is dictating what has happened, and all the rest of the Senators on the Republican side, who know it is wrong, go along. It is a small group.…”