(3 Jun 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington, DC – 3 June 2025
1. Wide of Sen. Chuck Schumer, others, walking to microphone
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Chuck Schumer, Minority Leader:
"Republicans should listen to him and actually to their former selves outraged about the national debt. Because it’s here. Donald Trump’s big, ugly bill is in the Senate. Behind the smoke and mirrors lies a cruel and draconian truth. Tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy paid by gutting health care for millions of Americans."
3. Wide of Sen. John Thune, others, walking to microphone
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. John Thune, Majority Leader:
"We obviously respect everything that Elon did with DOGE. On this particular issue, we have a difference of opinion. And I think it’s rooted in the fact that he’s accepting the CBO assumptions that are built upon a static scoring assessment of the effect, the macroeconomic effect, growth effect, that these changes will have on our economy. And all the modeling that we’ve seen suggests that the changes that are being made in the tax policy, particularly making permanent bonus depreciation, interest deductibility, R&D expensing, are gonna lead to significant growth. And you couple the growth with the biggest spending reduction in American history, and you will see a reduction, not an increase in the deficit. So we have a difference of opinion. He’s a title to that opinion. We’re gonna proceed full speed ahead"
5. Wide of Schumer speaking to reporters
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Chuck Schumer, Minority Leader:
"Fourteen million Americans will lose health care as they decimate Medicaid and now try to dismantle the Affordable Care Act. So this is an anti-health care bill, not just an anti Medicaid bill, but an anti-health care bill. 20 million Americans will see their health care costs go up, many of them dramatically, so they might not even be able to afford health care. Eleven million Americans, 4 million kids, could lose access to federal food assistance. Hungry kids, telling them to go hungry so billionaires can get an additional tax break?"
++BLACK FRAMES++
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Maria Cantwell, (D) Washington
"The Center for Health Care Quality and Payment Reform has reported that one-third of all rural hospitals in the country are already at risk, closing because of the pressures they face from financial losses on patient care, limited revenues, and other low financial reserves. So this bill puts already at risk rural hospitals and even a more potential state of possible closure. Do our Republican colleagues not care about delivery of health care in our rural community and the spillover effect it has to their economies? This is not scare tactics. This is a bill, if enacted, will not result in savings. It will result in an increase in the uninsured. It will result in financial stresses on our system and it will increase costs on all of us. And yes, it will cost lives."
++BLACK FRAMES++
8. SOUNDBITE (English) SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. John Thune, Majority Leader
9. Mid of Thune and other Republicans walking away from microphone
STORYLINE:
Top Republican and Democratic senators faced off on the massive Republican legislative package of tax breaks and spending cuts that cleared the House late last month by a single vote.
Senators returned to Washington late Monday, to revise the package ahead of what is expected to be a similarly narrow vote in the Senate.
Trump posted on social media, urging them “to work as fast as they can to get this Bill to MY DESK before the Fourth of JULY.”
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