[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 113 (Monday, June 30, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S4236]
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                         ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL

  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, today, Senate Republicans betrayed the 
American people and covered this Chamber in shame. In one fell swoop, 
Republicans passed the biggest tax breaks for billionaires ever seen, 
paid for by ripping healthcare away from millions of Americans and 
taking food out of the mouths of hungry kids.
  This is not a big, beautiful bill at all. That is why I moved on the 
floor to strike the title. It is now called The Act, but it is really a 
big, ugly betrayal.
  Because of this bill, tens of millions will lose health insurance, 
millions of jobs will disappear, people will get sick and die, kids 
will go hungry, and the debt will explode to levels we have never 
seen--all so that billionaires and corporate special interests will get 
a permanent tax break. This is not what the country needs. This is not 
what the American people want.
  And I must say this: Republicans bent and twisted and pushed the 
rules and the norms of the Senate to get this bill done, and they did 
grave damage to this Chamber when they did it--all just so they could 
pass tax breaks for billionaires.
  Today's vote will haunt our Republican colleagues for years to come 
as the American people see the damage that is done. As hospitals close, 
as people are laid off, as costs go up, as the debt increases, they 
will see what our colleagues have done, and they will remember it, and 
we Democrats will make sure they remember it. The American people will 
not forget the betrayal--the betrayal--that took place today.
  I yield the floor.

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