Reconciliation

Floor Speech

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Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, on reconciliation, instead of focusing on the issues that Americans truly care about right now, Senate Republicans will entangle the Senate in the partisan sideshow that is reconciliation. In just a few hours, Republicans will release a budget resolution that will demonstrate just how out of touch they are with the American people.

Senate Republicans want to pour $75 billion into ICE and Border Patrol without putting any restraints on these rogue Agencies' rampant violence in our streets. That is not what the American people want.

Americans want us to lower their costs, to end this debacle in Iran; to reopen FEMA, the Coast Guard, TSA, and other Agencies Republicans have shut down. And they do not want us to waste our time and their tax dollars empowering Trump's personal police force.

For weeks, Democrats have been ready and willing to address Americans' priorities. For weeks, Republicans have chosen to put the partisan policies of Donald Trump and Stephen Miller first.

Americans want to know why Republicans aren't fighting to lower their gas, healthcare, grocery, and housing costs. During reconciliation, Democrats are going to make sure this majority answers to the American people, and we will put a focus on lowering the costs of healthcare and gas and groceries and housing costs and many other costs that have gone up due to Trump's incompetence.

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