{"id":999,"date":"2025-06-02T21:23:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T21:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/?p=999"},"modified":"2025-06-03T00:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T00:31:09","slug":"schumer-democrats-plot-coordinated-resistance-to-trumps-one-ugly-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/02\/schumer-democrats-plot-coordinated-resistance-to-trumps-one-ugly-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumer, Democrats plot coordinated resistance to Trump's 'one ugly bill'"},"content":{"rendered":"

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is coordinating with his colleagues in the House to push back against Senate Republicans\u2019 efforts to ram President Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> wish list of policy desires through the Senate.<\/p>\n

In a letter to Senate Democrats<\/a> on Sunday, Schumer, D-N.Y., laid out a multipronged strategy to inflict as much pain on Republicans as possible in the budget reconciliation process, the legislative strategy the GOP is employing to sidestep negotiating with Democrats to advance the president\u2019s priorities.<\/p>\n

SENATE REPUBLICANS EYE CHANGES TO TRUMP’S MEGABILL AFTER HOUSE WIN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

While congressional Republicans don\u2019t need Democrats to move the colossal bill to Trump\u2019s desk, Schumer wants to make the process as uncomfortable as possible as Senate Republicans begin a roughly monthlong sprint to put their fingerprints on what Trump deemed a “big, beautiful bill.”<\/p>\n

The top Senate Democrat is coordinating with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and the top Democrats on crucial House committees to “share firsthand insight from their process and key Republican fault lines” with their Senate<\/a> counterparts.<\/p>\n

“Based on Senate Republicans\u2019<\/a> public comments, it\u2019s clear that if this reckless reconciliation bill passes the Senate it is very likely to contain changes, forcing it to be sent back to the House of Representatives,” Schumer wrote. “That\u2019s why we must be united with our House Democratic colleagues to fight this assault on working families.”<\/p>\n

Indeed, Senate Majority Leader John Thune<\/a>, R-S.D., said much of the debate and subsequent tweaks to the bill would focus on finding deeper spending cuts. The House\u2019s offering set a goal of $1.5 trillion in spending cuts over the next decade, but some Senate Republicans want to hit $2 trillion, while a smaller cohort of fiscal hawks want to go even deeper.<\/p>\n

DEMS CALL BUDGET BILL \u2018BUREAUCRATIC WATER TORTURE\u2019 AS GOP \u2018GLAD TO HAVE THE BALL IN OUR COURT\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Thune said that Republicans’ main focus during the next month would be ensuring that Trump’s first-term tax cuts are made permanent with the massive bill and not allowed to expire by the end of the year on the Senate floor, marking the Senate’s return on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We are not going to let that happen, and our biggest focus this month is completing this tax relief legislation with the goal of getting the final bill to the president before the Fourth of July,” he said. “It\u2019s going to be a very busy month, Mr. President.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

In all, 10 Senate committees will be tasked with sifting through the massive bill\u2019s contents, which include the president\u2019s policy desires on taxes, immigration, energy, defense and the national debt.<\/p>\n

FETTERMAN DEFIES \u2018PUNITIVE\u2019 PUNISHMENT FOR BREAKING WITH DEMOCRATIC PARTY DURING BIPARTISAN DISCUSSION<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Schumer\u2019s edict comes as those committees gear up to make their own revisions to the bill to, in part, fall in line with their own policy and spending desires and to also comply with Senate rules.<\/p>\n

He noted that Senate Democrats have been working “overtime” to target a litany of policies in the GOP\u2019s plan that “are in clear violation of the reconciliation rules and, in some cases, an assault on our very democracy.”<\/p>\n

Some Republicans already have issues with certain policies in the bill, like cuts to Medicaid or the plan to move up the timeline to phase out green energy tax credits ushered in by the Biden administration.<\/p>\n

Schumer also prodded Democrats to continue aggressively denouncing the bill on the ground in their home states and districts, arguing that “if the American people truly knew how deeply devastating, damaging, and deceitful this Republican plan is, they will reject it.”<\/p>\n

“Republicans\u2019 \u2018One Ugly Bill\u2019 is a farce; an attack on the values that make America great,” he wrote. “We know the first four months of Donald Trump\u2019s presidency have been catastrophic for the American people. It is our duty to fight for American families, to stop the damage, and make certain Republicans are held accountable.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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