Schumer is a thorn in the side of the GOP. He’s always doing something to make their job more difficult.
And Chuck Schumer made one disturbing move that has Trump completely enraged.
Senate Showdown: Schumer Strips Name from Trump’s Spending Bill
In a dramatic last-minute move, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., forced a name change to President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” just before the Senate passed the massive $3.3 trillion spending package on Tuesday, July 1.
The legislative clash, marked by heated debate and a razor-thin vote, revealed deep divisions over the bill’s impact on American families, healthcare, and the national debt.
During the Senate session, with Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., presiding, Schumer invoked a point of order targeting the bill’s official title on lines three to five of its first page, which read, “SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act.'”
Schumer argued that the title violated Section 313 B1A of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, commonly known as the “Byrd Rule.” Ricketts upheld the objection, stripping the title from the legislation. The bill was renamed simply “the act.”
Speaking to reporters after the vote, Schumer didn’t mince words. “This is not a ‘big, beautiful bill’ at all. That’s why I moved down the floor to strike the title. It is now called ‘the act.’ That’s what it’s called. But it is really the ‘big ugly betrayal,’ and the American people know it,” he said.
He warned that the bill’s passage would have dire consequences, predicting that “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.”
Schumer pointed to the bill’s unpopularity among some Republicans, noting, “This bill is so irredeemable that one Republican literally chose to retire rather than vote yes and decimate his own state,” referring to Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., who opposed the legislation alongside Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Susan Collins, R-Maine.
When asked if the name change was meant to provoke Trump, Schumer dismissed the suggestion. “I didn’t even think of President Trump. I thought of the truth. This is not a beautiful bill. Anyone who loses their health insurance doesn’t think it’s beautiful. Any worker in the clean energy industry who loses their job does not think it’s beautiful. Any mom who can’t feed her kid on $5 a day doesn’t think it’s beautiful. We wanted the American people to know the truth.”
The Senate passed the bill 51-50 after an all-night voting marathon, with Vice President JD Vance casting the tiebreaking vote. No Democrats supported the measure, while Tillis, Paul, and Collins were the only Republicans to vote against it. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, backed the bill after Alaska-specific provisions were added to secure her support.
Democrats were quick to condemn the outcome. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., a prominent member of the progressive “Squad,” took to X to slam the vice president’s role. “JD Vance was the deciding vote to cut Medicaid across the country,” she wrote. “An absolute and utter betrayal of working families.”
Vance, however, hailed the bill as a triumph, emphasizing its “massive tax cuts, especially no tax on tips and overtime. And most importantly, big money for border security.” He called it “a big win for the American people” and echoed GOP operative Roger Stone’s defense of the legislation.
Massive tax cuts, especially no tax on tips and overtime. And most importantly, big money for border security.
This is a big win for the American people.
— JD Vance (@JDVance) July 1, 2025
Stone argued, “The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projects Trump’s reconciliation bill would add $3.3 trillion to the national debt over the next decade by extending the president’s tax cuts that he first implemented in 2017. In fact, federal revenues spiked after the 2017 Trump tax cuts just like they did after Reagan and JFK implemented across-the-board tax cuts.”
He added, “The deficit is caused by excess spending which the administration is addressing in a series of recision bills. PS the CBO is always wrong.”
At the time of writing, the bill returns to the House for final approval, where lawmakers must reconcile differences, particularly on Medicaid provisions. Republican leaders aim to send the finalized legislation to Trump’s desk by Independence Day.
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