Leader Schumer Floor Remarks Slamming Donald Trump For Continuing To Prioritize Voter Suppression & Conspiracy Theories Over Lowering Americans’ Costs

Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke on the Senate floor to denounce Donald Trump's continued attempts to suppress the vote and steal elections while Americans struggle with an affordability crisis that his administration has only made worse. Leader Schumer also criticized Trump's comments threatening a shutdown if Republicans refuse to eliminate the filibuster and pass the SAVE Act. Below are Senator Schumer's remarks, which can also be viewed here:

It just gets crazier and crazier with this administration. Yesterday, the White House announced that Trump and his election task force will reveal intelligence reports that supposedly corroborate his baseless lies about the 2020 election. Give me a break.

Donald, start focusing on lowering Americans' costs, not your conspiracy theory that the 2020 elections were stolen from you.

You don't have proof, and you haven't come up with proof for six years. Because there is no proof, Donald Trump. You haven't with the truth because it isn't there. You haven't come up with the proof because it isn't there. There is no proof.

Trump should get off all of this nonsense, all of this wishful thinking, all of this lunacy, and focus on what people actually care about: their higher costs.

If Trump thought about November 2026 half as much as he thinks about 2020, maybe his party wouldn't be scrambling right now.

Apparently, Trump also plans to say that Senators Ossoff and Warnock are illegitimate because of election fraud.

How desperate can Trump get? He's flailing. His effort to overturn what happened in 2020 is mission impossible. He ought to wake up and smell the coffee and abandon this frivolous, ludacris, diversionary effort.

Trump's obvious desperation might be amusing if it weren't so dangerous.

Without question, it's part of Trump's effort to subvert the 2026 midterm elections.

The whole reason Republicans are in their current mess is because Trump refuses to drop his radical SAVE Act to strip millions of Americans of their voting rights.

And Trump has made it clear once again who plans to force a shutdown: Donald Trump. Yup, Donald Trump.

Yesterday, Trump said Republicans have to get rid of the filibuster and pass the SAVE Act "otherwise we're going to have a shutdown." That's what he said yesterday.

Americans hear this: if there's a shutdown, it's on Donald Trump's back. Donald, do you remember last time you demanded a shutdown, when Nancy [Pelosi] and I were in your office? Didn't work out for you too well then and won't work out for you too well now. America hear this: if there's a shutdown, it's on Donald Trump's back.

Unless Trump changes his course, realizes the SAVE Act cannot pass, and starts working on more productive things, we could be headed for another Trump shutdown.

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