Leader Schumer Floor Remarks On The Need To Keep Working On A Bipartisan Appropriations Process To Deliver For Hardworking Americans

Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke on the Senate floor on the CR, emphasizing that continued work towards bipartisan appropriations funding is essential to investing in communities and making life affordable for Americans. Below are Senator Schumer's remarks, which can also be viewed here.

From the start, Senate Democrats said we wanted to keep the government open and keep politics out of the appropriations process.

This CR gives us the time we need to continue hashing out a budget that helps make life more affordable for the American people while crushing the chaos, the corruption of the Trump administration.

Senate Democrats will always be willing to work across the aisle and negotiate in good faith to deliver results for working Americans.

Thanks to Senator Murray's efforts, we have staved off Trump's effort to withhold federal grants for vital projects. Trump wanted to pick grants in the states and politicians he liked and eliminate them from others. Nothing could be more against the Constitution, more against the government, more against fairness, more against bipartisanship than that. He wanted to do all that. People were amazed. "Oh, I like this project in red state, go for it. I don't like the very same project paid by the same money in a blue state. Cut it out." No rationale, no reason other than political maligned-ness. So, people were really revolted by what he was trying to do.

Taxpayers fund these grants, so taxpayers deserve to see that money is invested in their communities, not withheld by Donald Trump as partisan retribution.

Senate Democrats have stood up for working Americans at every step, and we're going to continue to fight for the American people in the appropriations process in the weeks and months ahead.

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