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 ground. Schumer railed in opposition to President Trump for refusing to barter on the continued shutdown and well being care points.
Schumer accused the president of “spending all his time on eroding democracy, taking away our rights.”
“The individuals anticipate him to not go on a international journey, this president who fancies himself a king,” Schumer stated, 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 method 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 health insurance tax credit which are a prime precedence for the social gathering.
“Jeffries and I requested him yesterday, we demanded actually, he sit down and discuss to us, and negotiate — not simply discuss to us — negotiate a critical strategy to keep away from all of the devastating issues that can happen,” Schumer stated. “And he stated 4 hours later, after conferring with Thune and Johnson, no, he would not. Effectively, that may be a shame.”
Schumer stated 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 that might get Republicans to move an honest proposal,” Schumer stated.
