[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 94 (Wednesday, June 3, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Page S2503]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             RECONCILIATION

  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, now on reconciliation, after weeks of 
Republican infighting, we still haven't seen a draft of the Republican 
radical reconciliation bill. The American people don't need to see the 
bill text to know that Republicans are fighting for Donald Trump, not 
for working families. Even without Trump's billion-dollar, taxpayer-
funded ballroom, which Democrats successfully killed despite 
Republicans' best efforts, the bill is rotten through and through.
  At a time when Americans can't afford gasoline, housing, healthcare, 
food, Republicans won't spend a dime to bring costs down but are more 
than happy to fork over another $70 billion to Trump's masked agents 
who have unleashed chaos in our streets and threaten to do it again.
  Americans are burning through their savings right now, but ICE and 
CBP are currently sitting on $100 billion that Trump and the GOP pumped 
into these rogue Agencies last year. The American people need every 
penny they can get right now to lower costs. Trump's Agencies have more 
cash than they know what to do with.
  Whenever we go into a vote-arama, Democrats will be ready. Every 
vote, every amendment we bring to the floor will demonstrate that 
Democrats are standing up for the American people and Republicans are 
selling out to Donald Trump.
  Republicans will have to vote on costs. Republicans will have to vote 
on tariffs. Republicans will have to vote on Trump's disastrous war 
with Iran. Republicans will have to vote on ICE and Border Patrol's 
abuses of power.
  Democrats want to lower your costs; Republicans want to waste your 
tax dollars. Democrats want to rein in MAGA's chaos; Republicans want 
to let that chaos run wild--no guardrails. Democrats are fighting 
Trump's corruption; Republicans are aiding and abetting it.
  And Republicans aren't out of the woods yet--Democrats are just 
getting started.

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