With The Cost-of-Living Skyrocketing Nationwide, Republicans Prioritize Billions More In Taxpayer Funding For Donald Trump & Stephen Miller’s Rogue Police Forces—ICE & Border[...]

Republicans Want To Fund ICE & Border Patrol With No Reforms While Senate Democrats Force Votes To Lower Costs For American Families

Rising Prices. Wrong Priorities.

Washington, D.C. - Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senate Democrats today unveiled their strategy for vote-a-rama, which will shine a spotlight on the clear contrast between the two parties. Democrats are fighting for American families, while Republicans want to give even more funding to rogue police forces terrorizing communities without accountability.

American families from coast to coast are getting crushed by rising costs - and Republicans are offering no relief and admitting none is in sight. Instead of focusing on lowering costs and delivering for Americans, Republicans are using reconciliation to plow billions more taxpayer dollars into Trump and Stephen Miller's rogue police forces of ICE and CBP - agencies already funded for years - with no new accountability. Senate Democrats will use vote-a-rama to force votes on what Americans actually care about and desperately want: lower costs.

This is a clear, unavoidable contrast:

• Democrats: Lower costs - gas, health care, groceries, housing
• Republicans: More money for an out-of-control police force, with no accountability and no oversight

"Republicans are choosing to spend time and taxpayer dollars funding agencies that are already funded - instead of lowering costs for the American people," said Leader Schumer. "Senate Democrats are going to force them to answer a simple question: why aren't you lowering costs? We're going to force vote after vote to bring down gas prices, cut health care costs, and ease the burden on families - because Americans deserve relief, not more bills."

With their amendment votes, Dems will put Republicans on the spot and show the American people Republicans' true priorities:

• Lower costs - or vote to keep them high
• Help families - or block relief
• Take action - or explain why you won't

Senate Democrats will use vote-a-rama to force Republicans to confront their failure to lower costs. They will be forced to go on record about how the Iran war is raising gas prices. Senate Republicans will have to choose between lowering Americans' out of pocket health care costs or pouring tens of billions of dollars into President Trump's reckless ICE proposal. And Senate Democrats will offer amendments that lay bare Republicans' misplaced priorities that ignore the needs of American families struggling with high housing costs and grocery prices.

Amendment examples to expect:

1. To create a point of order against any reconciliation bill that does not decrease the cost of housing
2. To create a point of order against any reconciliation bill that does not decrease out of pocket health care costs
3. To create a point of order against any reconciliation bill that does not decrease energy costs

How'd we get here? Republicans are rushing this because they can't govern. They failed to pass full DHS funding. They're now resorting to a piecemeal, partisan workaround.

Reminder: The Senate passed DHS funding TWICE - unanimously. But, Speaker Johnson and House Republicans are blocking it.

And now? Republicans already gave more than $170 billion to immigration enforcement, and now they want billions more for ICE and Border Patrol. Republicans want no guardrails, no reforms, no oversight. Democrats want to fund security - but with accountability.

"Americans don't wake up asking for more government enforcement - they wake up worried about their bills," Leader Schumer concluded. "Senate Democrats are going to make sure that's what this debate is about - and force Republicans to answer for why they're ignoring it."

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