The highest Democrat within the Senate, Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer (D-NY), tried to drive the clerks on the Senate flooring to learn the ‘huge, stunning invoice’ in its entirety, all 950 pages of it, in an effort to inflict as a lot ache as doable on Senate Republicans, a transfer that might take as much as 15 hours.
Schumer’s delay tactic is a far cry from how radical leftist Democrats often method payments.
In 2010, former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi famously chided those that questioned the flexibility to learn the huge Reasonably priced Care Act earlier than voting on it, “We now have to move the invoice so that you could discover out what’s in it.”
Schumer took to X to state, ” I’ll object to Republicans transferring ahead on their Huge, Ugly Invoice with out studying it on the Senate flooring.”
“Republicans received’t inform America what’s within the invoice.”
“So Democrats are forcing it to be learn begin to end on the ground.”
“We shall be right here all night time if that’s what it takes to learn it.”
BREAKING: I’ll object to Republicans transferring ahead on their Huge, Ugly Invoice with out studying it on the Senate flooring
Republicans received’t inform America what’s within the invoice
So Democrats are forcing it to be learn begin to end on the ground
We shall be right here all night time if that’s what…
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) June 28, 2025
Voting, nonetheless, is underway on an preliminary procedural vote for the invoice.
