During a Senate Democratic press briefing on Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke about the Republicans' budget resolution.
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00:00Okay, I'm happy to be joined. It's one Northeasterner, both versus, and not versus, and three Northwesterners. They win.
00:11Okay, I want to thank everybody for joining us today. Special thanks to the trio from the Northwest, great senators all, Wyden, Cantwell, and Merkley.
00:20Now, look, last week, President Trump revealed the first look at what's to come in his skinny budget. Trump's budget is a gut punch to American families.
00:33They want to cut almost a quarter of all domestic programs that Americans rely on, health care, education, public safety, veterans.
00:43The budget is proof positive that the emperor has no clothes. Proof positive that the emperor has no clothes.
00:52Donald Trump is a con man who does not care one iota for the everyday travails of working people.
01:00But few things crystallize Trump's 2.0 as much as Republicans' signature bill, a massive tax break for billionaires, paid for by the middle class, by the biggest cuts that Medicaid has ever seen.
01:16Reality is now coming back to bite our Republican colleagues. Now they had to reveal who they really are.
01:22None of the language, none of the deceptions, none of the vague language, none of the, oh, I care, uh-uh.
01:31Now they have their budget and they're a total loggerheads about how to move forward because the American people see what they're doing and they don't like it.
01:41There is zero disagreement, of course, among Republicans when it comes to the big gold, big tax breaks for the wealthy.
01:51Where Republicans do disagree is how to screw working Americans, whether it's being by Medicaid or SNAP or other programs that American folks rely on.
02:02Why do Republicans face such a conundrum where they're so at odds with one another?
02:08Why are they fighting and why are we unified?
02:10Because nobody likes their proposals.
02:13Very few people, a lot of rich people in their, in the Trump administration, not even a lot, a handful.
02:20But people don't like what they're doing and they try to hide from it.
02:23The backlash Republicans are getting from the public should serve as a warning to our colleagues on the other side.
02:30If they proceed with their agenda, the political outcry will be enormous.
02:35Two quick other subjects.
02:37It's National Small Business Week.
02:39Our Republicans are touting it.
02:41We all know that small businesses are the backbone of our economy.
02:46Yet, right now, they're bending over backward to make ends meet because of Trump and Senate Republicans' tariffs.
02:54Right now, 72% of small businesses say erratic tariff policies create a whiplash effect on them.
03:02They can't plan.
03:04They can't make long-term decisions.
03:06They don't have the cushion big businesses have.
03:08So they're hurting.
03:0981% of small businesses said thanks to Trump's tariff tax, they'd be forced to raise prices for consumers.
03:16And many indicated they would.
03:18So instead of the Republicans just saying, hey, it's Small Business Week and screwing small business,
03:26small businesses are the backbone of our country.
03:29It's time for Senate Republicans to grow a backbone and oppose Trump's tariffs
03:35and support our legislation that says small businesses don't pay tariffs.
03:41And one more point, in a disgraceful moment, the Republicans voted to confirm Bisignano as Social Security Administrator.
03:51This is putting a fox in the henhouse.
03:55Bisignano is slash and burn.
03:58And the Republicans don't want to say directly that they want to kill Social Security, so they strangle him.
04:04There's no better strangler of any program than slash and burn Bisignano.
04:09You know, what the Republicans did is a disgrace, and politically, nobody's going to like what they did.
04:16Senator Wyden.