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With the Senate about to take up Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy and no meals or healthcare for tens of millions invoice, Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer (D-NY) launched an expensive colleague letter the place he vowed that Senate Democrats would struggle the invoice that he wrote would decrease prices for prices for billionaires whereas elevating prices on households with each instrument at their disposal.
Schumer additionally introduced that Home and Senate Democrats have joined collectively on a unified technique to struggle the invoice.
Sen. Schumer wrote:
Within the Senate, our Committees have been working additional time to arrange for the Byrd Bathtub, concentrating on the litany of insurance policies included within the Republican plan which can be in clear violation of the reconciliation guidelines and in some instances, an assault on our very democracy. For instance, Home Republicans snuck in a devious coverage to limit the authority of federal courts to carry authorities officers in contempt after they violate court docket orders. Republican’s bare subservience to a lawless President is gravely harmful and Senate Democrats received’t stand for it. Ought to Senate Republicans embody this rotten provision, I vow, alongside all of you, to struggle tooth and nail to strike this authoritarian assault on our system of justice.
