Chuck Schumer Asked If He Would Work With Elon Musk To Kill Trump's Big Beautiful Bill In The Senate

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00:00on this subject. Yes, ma'am.

00:02GOP lawmakers have defended some of their budget bills, Medicaid reforms, by highlighting

00:09preliminary CBO projections of roughly 1.4 million illegal immigrants losing their coverage

00:17under state-funded health programs. Is reducing federal Medicaid payments to states that provide

00:23coverage to undocumented immigrants? Look, the bottom line is this overall bill is so awful.

00:30If they want to aim, if they've got some specific issues, aim it. Don't just do a meat ax or a

00:38chainsaw across the board and cut everything, everything, everything. I don't know if their

00:44numbers are accurate. These are GOP numbers. But it doesn't matter. The bottom line is this

00:49goes way beyond even what they're talking about and hurts everybody. Next question. Next question.

00:55Considering Elon Musk's robust opposition to this bill and the fact that he has not returned

01:01the call of the Speaker of the House, according to the Speaker, would you try to bring him into

01:05the fold to help kill this bill in the Senate? He's not my cup of tea, to put it mildly. But

01:12Republicans are already listening to him. They're already listening to him. You've heard some of

01:18the right-wing groups uplift Elon Musk against Donald Trump. Anyway, yes.

01:24One of the things that it sounds like he wants is to bring back the EV tax credit that's been taken

01:30out of the reconciliation bill. Is that another thing that you agree with Elon Musk? Well, I spoke on the

01:34floor, I spoke on the floor about what they're doing overall in energy is just ridiculous. A, it's going to

01:40raise people's costs, thousands of dollars in terms of their power costs. Number two, over 840,000 jobs

01:48will be lost. And number three, it gives all the keys to China. So we have to revamp the entire

01:53energy package. And I'm meeting with, I've met several times with my Democratic, seven or eight

01:58of my Democratic colleagues. I think Senator Wyden was in those meetings. And we're reaching out to

02:04Republican colleagues, as are the industries that are affected. Eighty percent of these new clean energy

02:12industries are in Republican states. The whole thing needs revamping. The whole thing needs revamping,

02:18just like in health care. Yes.

02:20Are you urging members to vote against the genius that have done any final votes?

02:23I voted no. There's a division in our caucus on that issue. The reason I voted no is because it did

02:30nothing to stop Donald Trump and his family from engaging in self-aggrandizing, self-enriching

02:37activities. Yes?

02:53Well, I think the bottom line is the rescission package is something that we Democrats very much

02:59vehemently oppose. How are you going to have a budget? How are you going to put together budgets if

03:04they're then going to try to do rescissions? What's the point of doing a budget? But the good news is

03:09there are a good number of Republicans who don't like it either. Last one.

03:12Leader Jeffrey yesterday told us that he thinks the rescissions package is dead in the Senate,

03:18that it will not pass here. Do you agree with that?

03:22Look, we're going to fight the rescission. They haven't even sent it over to us yet, so we can't comment

03:28on what's going to, you know, we'll see what happens in the House. But I think there's broad

03:32Democratic opposition to the rescissions package. Okay? Thank you, everybody. Thank you, guys.