Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer chimed in throughout Sen. Jeff Merkley’s ongoing speech to ask an prolonged query of the Oregon Democrat on the Senate flooring. Schumer railed towards President Trump for refusing to barter on the continuing shutdown and well being care points.
Schumer accused the president of “spending all his time on eroding democracy, taking away our rights.”
“The individuals count on him to not go on a international journey, this president who fancies himself a king,” Schumer mentioned, referring to the president’s upcoming journey to Asia. “However as a substitute, to do the individuals’s enterprise and assist us, sit down with us, negotiate a means out of this well being care disaster.”
The New York Democrat outlined how he and Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries requested a gathering with the president to barter on the medical insurance tax credit which might be a high precedence for the occasion.
“Jeffries and I requested him yesterday, we demanded actually, he sit down and speak to us, and negotiate — not simply speak to us — negotiate a critical method to keep away from all of the devastating issues that may happen,” Schumer mentioned. “And he mentioned 4 hours later, after conferring with Thune and Johnson, no, he would not. Effectively, that could be a shame.”
Schumer mentioned Mr. Trump “is the focus of this well being care disaster,” Home Speaker Mike Johnson “is paralyzed due to the divisions in his caucus” and Senate Majority Chief John Thune “simply goes alongside.”
“President Trump is the one who might get Republicans to cross an honest proposal,” Schumer mentioned.
