Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer (D-NY) stated Thursday on MSNBC’s “All In” that the repercussions of shutting down the federal authorities could be worse than voting for the Home funding invoice.
He stated the vicious “bastards” of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk will destroy democracy.
Schumer stated, “Below a shutdown, it’s the Govt department, on this case Trump, Musk, DOGE and Vought who’s head of the OMB, who everyone knows are authoritarians, vicious, nasty who would have sole management over what’s funded and what isn’t they get to find out what’s an important service. And they’ll simply reduce to smithereens far higher than within the CR invoice, which is a awful invoice. Far higher than that what may very well be funded and what couldn’t? And there’s no recourse. You’ll be able to’t go to court docket. This can be a determination completely within the govt department and so it could be devastating.”
He continued, “There’s no exit ramp. Anybody who desires the shutdown. I’ve requested them, properly, how can we get out of it? Guess who it’s as much as get out of it? Donald Trump, Elon Musk, DOGE. So it’s a horrible it’s too unhealthy alternate options. And I respect individuals who truly need, you already know, don’t need to vote for the CR it’s terrible however with the choice being a authorities shutdown, that’s even worse.”
Schumer added, “We’ve got summed up in a sentence that they’re making the center class pay for tax cuts for billionaires. It’s a lot, significantly better to not be in the course of a shutdown, which to divert folks from the primary subject we now have in opposition to these bastards, sorry, these folks, which isn’t solely all these cuts, however they’re ruining democracy.”
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