Democratic senators are enraged after Republicans rammed through Trump’s budget bill, a monstrous package of tax breaks for billionaires paid for by gutting health care, food assistance, and vital services for working families. Democratic leaders are calling the bill not just bad policy but an act of cruelty, greed, and moral failure. They’re furious. And they’re sounding the alarm: this is what unchecked power looks like and we have to fight back hard.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D–CT)
“I am shaking with fury over what just happened. That's the most monstrous piece of legislation I've ever voted on."
— Forbes Breaking News
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D–MA)
“After 26 hours of fighting on the Senate floor, Republicans voted to rip health care from millions of people and let little babies go hungry. And they cheered. I'm angry. You should be too. But this fight isn't over.
“This bill is bad. It’s bad economically. It’s bad morally. This bill is just wrong. But, we stay in the fight.”
—Senator Warren on X/Twitter
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D–MD)
“Another giveaway to the wealthy disguised as relief for working families. Nobody with a paycheck benefits.”
— Issued on website
Sen. Cory Booker (D–NJ)
“It's a moral obscenity. It is violence in the sense of what it will do to many families, denying them healthcare when they are sick, denying them food when they are hungry...”
— Interview on MSNBC
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D–NY)
“They didn't have the courage. They didn't have the backbone to vote with the people of their states. They voted in obeisance to Donald Trump and his billionaire buddies.”
— from transcript of remarks following vote