‘It’s So Cruel, It Is So Mean’: Chuck Schumer Slams Trump Administration And GOP Over The Big Beautiful Bill

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During Wednesday’s Senate Democrats’ ‘Ask Me Anything’ Virtual Event, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) discussed the effects of the proposed policies in the current proposal of the Big Beautiful Bill.

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00:00Hi everyone and welcome to the Senate Democrats Ask Me Anything. You're going to get four hours

00:06of Democratic senators. We're trying to get just about every senator to participate and you can

00:11ask them anything. And we are here to show what's going on with this horrible bill. Trump calls it

00:19a big beautiful bill. Let me tell you, it is ugly. And the closer you get, the uglier it looks.

00:26It is so nasty. It is so cruel. It is so mean. It's the largest cut in health care that we have

00:33ever seen. It cuts Medicaid back dramatically. It cuts ACA back dramatically. It cuts, it makes

00:40private insurance such that even if you don't have Medicaid or Medicare or ACA, your rates are

00:47going to go way up. It's going to cause so many hospitals to lay off hundreds of thousands of

00:53people, hardworking people who need the jobs. If you're in a rural area, the likelihood is

00:58your hospital will shut down. Now Donald Trump is being just a fucking liar about this. He says

01:07it won't cut anyone's benefits. That's a lie. He said it won't close any hospitals. He said that's a

01:13lie. He said that it's just going after fraud and abuse. Bull. Ask somebody who is losing their

01:21health care why they're part of fraud and abuse. Ask the senior citizen who can't pay for their

01:27prescription drugs why that's part of fraud and abuse on their part. It isn't. And he is so full

01:33of it on fraud and abuse and going after fraud and abuse that they just pardoned a big nursing home

01:38operator who had years sentenced in jail because he ripped off his workers. That's fraud and abuse,

01:46Mr. President. That's who you should go after. Not pardoning the guy and going after working

01:51people. And it's not just bad on health care, as bad as that is. And by the way, we just learned

01:56it's also going to make Medicare, senior citizens on Medicare, it's going to make that more expensive

02:02and more difficult as well. So wherever you look at health care, it is slashing. People will have less

02:07health care. And that's dramatic. Another thing it does. Most Americans, 80% believe we should feed

02:14hungry children and other people, senior citizens who need food help. Veterans who've just come back

02:21and need food help. This cuts more money out of food is helping feed hungry people. It's called

02:27SNAP the program than any bill ever has. How the hell do you take food out of a kid's mouth? And finally,

02:35one of the other things it does. We've had great, we've transformed America so that we're moving to

02:40clean energy, to wind and solar. The bill eliminates all that because the fossil fuel industry has the

02:47Republican senators and Donald Trump in their vice grip. And they eliminate, here we say we need a lot

02:54more energy because of all the AI and everything else. And yet they're cutting off the cheapest, cleanest

02:59form of energy we got, which is solar. All because the fossil fuel industry knows that clean energy is the

03:06future and they want to kill it. So this is one big, ugly bill. And you know why they're doing it?

03:11It makes it even uglier. Tax breaks for billionaires. These, they're few, this little small group,

03:19these billionaire buddies of Donald Trump. They want to pay less taxes. Imagine taking food out of

03:26babies and children's needs. A children who, a child who's hungry can't learn. Cutting health care

03:33for veterans, for senior citizens, for little people. It's just terrible, terrible, terrible

03:39for the tax breaks. So the, what we call this bill, it's a betrayal. Everything Donald Trump

03:45said in the campaign, he's betraying the working families of America just to help the billionaires.

03:50So my first question is from Susan Lambert's audience, a creator based here in DC. Hi,

04:05Suzanne. Thanks for sending in the question. The question is this, am I voting for the big,

04:10ugly bill? NFW, as they say in Brooklyn, no fucking way. I am not voting for this bill. I wouldn't,

04:15it's the, one of the worst bills I have ever seen. And what are Democrats doing to stop this bill?

04:21We are doing, we are pulling out all the stops. We are using every tool in the toolbox to try and

04:26stop this bill. We are obviously telling our Republican colleagues how bad it is, but that's

04:32not going to do it. Here's what's going to do it. Abe Lincoln, he said, public sentiment is everything.

04:37So we are all over the place in Republican states, in Republican districts, letting the public

04:43know how bad this is. Of the six congressional, of the seven Republican congressional districts in my

04:49state, where Republicans are in charge, I've been in all six talking about how bad the Medicaid cuts

04:55are, talking about how their hospitals will close, talking about how the average citizen is going to

05:03pay $500 to $1,000 more on their energy bill, on their heating bills, because of what Trump has done.

05:12We had a great rally on Thursday about what they're doing on clean energy. And the labor union guys

05:18all showed up, carpenters and laborers and pipe fitters and everybody else, because this bill is

05:25going to throw them out of work. We estimate that millions of people are going to lose their jobs.

05:31And we're letting people know, you work in a hospital, you might lose your job. You work for a new clean

05:37energy company, you might lose your job. And we're letting people know how bad this is for them.

05:42You're not going to get the kind of food help that you need to feed kids. And that's going to hurt our

05:47farmers. I see Senator Klobuchar walked in. She's one of our experts on farmers coming from what she

05:53calls Minnesota. And so we're fighting every step of the way. We're letting the public know, the public,

06:00the calls are pouring in. And we'd say to you, our audience, call your senators, call your congressmen,

06:06tell them how ugly this bill is. Tell them how mean this bill is. Tell him we do not want to see the

06:13Republicans and Trump betray America for just to help a few billionaires. We can stop this bill.

06:20And if you live in a state with just Democratic senators, I'll bet you got friends, relatives,

06:25you know, who are business associates who are in other states, Republican states, make sure they

06:31call, make sure they write, make sure they pick it, make sure they protest. Public sentiment is

06:37everything. The public, the more they learn about this bill, the more they hate it. Let them know,

06:42let them let their senators know, let's beat this monstrosity. Up next is Senator Klobuchar,

06:49who is appropriately dressed in green. I said she'd talk about farmers.

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