‘One Big Grift’: Chuck Schumer Tears Into House GOP Over The ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’

During Tuesday's Senate Democrats' press briefing, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke about the proposed budget resolution in the House.

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00:00okay thank you everybody for being here I want to thank Senator Coons Baldwin

00:06and Warnock for joining me today so this morning President Trump came to the

00:12Capitol to push for their one big beautiful bill it's not beautiful it's

00:17ugly it's nothing short of one big grift on the American people we have some

00:25quiet please okay she's very nice I like her Trump can meet with House

00:38Republicans as many times as he likes but it doesn't change the facts this bill

00:44kills jobs explodes the deficit and overwhelmingly helps the rich their

00:50plan is simple billionaires win American families lose on jobs Trump and the

00:57Republicans want to pay for billionaire tax cuts but killing critical clean

01:02energy projects throughout the country under Trump Chinese government Chinese

01:09industry is far outpacing the United States on clean energy he's literally

01:14ceding our leadership to Chinese companies in 10 years from now because clean

01:19energy is the future it's cheaper and better it's going to hurt our country

01:24our families our children in so many ways this ideological obsession that the hard

01:31right led by the oil gas and coal industry have against clean energy is going

01:35to be very harmful it's going to be one of the worst there are many one of the

01:39worst things that this administration is doing in history will show it and then of

01:45course the tax giveaways to the budget proposal that would add 52 trillion

01:49dollars to the national debt over the next 30 years despite claiming to be the

01:55party of fiscal responsibility this administration Trump and the Republicans

02:00would add 50 trillion dollars 50 trillion dollars to the debt this plan

02:07isn't for all Americans it's not even for most Americans according to a study by

02:11Wharton under the Republicans plan the top 10 percent of Americans get 65 percent of

02:17the benefit of the tax breaks and many Americans making less than 51 thousand

02:22dollars a year would actually see their incomes go down go down and despite

02:29campaigning on it Trump just this morning completely backed down from his

02:34promises on state and local tax deduction he came to Long Island he campaigned he

02:39said he wants to help the policemen and the firemen and the teachers of small

02:44business folks by getting by making sure that that cap is raised and he just did

02:49180 degree reversal pulling the rug out from under the New York and New Jersey and

02:55California Congress members who said that Republican Congress members said they

03:00needed this let's see if they stand strong they said they're going to do

03:04everything they can to get that salt cap up let's see where they are it was

03:09incredible I don't believe let's okay we'll leave it at that it was Donald Trump

03:14who created the disaster when he put the salt caps in during his first term it's

03:20like the arsonist promising to put out the fire when he says now he wants to

03:24change it so Senate Democrats will fight all of these cuts and their utter cruelty of

03:31this legislation Senator Coons thank you