Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer celebrated the election results with a fiery statement, calling them both “a great night for America” and “a five-alarm fire for Donald Trump and Republicans.” Reflecting on what he described as a decisive message from voters, Schumer said the results showed that “the American people said, loud and clear, ‘enough was enough.’” His remarks underscored growing Democratic confidence and framed the outcome as a sharp rebuke of Trump-era politics and Republican leadership.
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00:00Last night, he said that the shutdown is a negative factor for the Republicans.
00:09When addressing why he had lost, this is what Trump said, the shutdown was a big factor
00:13negative for Republicans.
00:16Last night was a sign that if Republicans continue with their failed policies, their
00:22majorities are at risk, including here in this Senate chamber.
00:29Republicans realize Republicans are responsible for this awful shutdown, now the longest officially
00:34in history.
00:36What a shameless milestone.
00:38Last night was a great night for America and a five-alarm fire for Donald Trump and Republicans.
00:46The Republicans' high-cost House is on fire, and they've only got themselves to blame.
00:55As loudly and clearly as they could have, the American people said last night, enough
01:01is enough.
01:04Enough with Donald Trump's tariffs, which are overwhelmingly being paid for by working people
01:09and small businesses.
01:11Enough with Republicans' relentless attack on health care, where people are seeing their
01:16premiums go up by thousands of dollars even each month, and they may have to be without
01:23health care altogether.
01:26Last night was a sign that if Republicans continue with their failed policies, their majorities
01:33are at risk, including here in this Senate chamber.
01:39The election showed that Democratic control of the Senate is much closer than people and
01:45prognosticators realize.
01:48So let me say it again, Republicans' high-cost House is on fire, and they've only got themselves
01:57to blame.
01:58And by the way, that's not just my opinion, it's Donald Trump's opinion.
02:03Last night, he said that the shutdown is a negative factor for the Republicans.
02:12When addressing why he had lost, this is what Trump said, the shutdown was a big factor, negative
02:17for Republicans.
02:19And let me read what Trump said last night.
02:21He said, this is Donald Trump speaking, Trump wasn't on the ballot, and the shutdown were
02:26the two reasons Republicans lost elections tonight.
02:31That's what Trump said.
02:32Trump admits that the Republican shutdown is hurting him and his party.
02:41The President is right.
02:44Americans realize Republicans are responsible for this awful shutdown, now the longest officially
02:49in history.
02:51What a shameless milestone.
02:53Donald Trump has now presided over the longest and second longest shutdowns ever, and he only,
03:00only, has himself to blame.
03:06When Leader Jeffries and I met with Donald Trump in the Oval Office last month, we warned
03:11him that this would happen.
03:14We warned the President of the consequences of ignoring Democrats, ignoring the American
03:18people, ignoring the healthcare crisis.
03:21We warned the President that ignoring Democrats and insisting on zero negotiations was a recipe
03:26for disaster and would come back to haunt him.
03:30Well, Republicans shouldn't ignore us anymore, for their own good and the country's good.
03:37So this morning, Leader Jeffries and I once again demanded a meeting with the President.
03:45It's time to sit down and negotiate with Democrats to bring this Republican shutdown to an end,
03:51we told the President.
03:53We've been asking for a meeting for weeks and even months.
03:57But now the election results ought to send a much-needed bolt of lightning to Donald Trump
04:02that he should meet with us to end this crisis.
04:04His shutdown, which he admits, hurt him badly in the election.
04:11It's time to hold a bipartisan meeting of legislative leaders to reopen the government.
04:16It's time to fix the ACA premium emergency that is now upon us, and Democrats are ready
04:22to meet anytime, anywhere, anyplace.
04:26Donald Trump ignores us at his own political peril.
04:30Because the takeaway from last night was simply unmistakable.
04:34Democrats swept in states last night across the country, red and blue alike.
04:40Democrats won overwhelmingly by more than anyone ever thought in New Jersey and Virginia.
04:46Democrats won in Mississippi and won in New York and Pennsylvania and in Georgia.
04:51Democrats won in statewide races, but it went deeper than that.
04:54We won in lots of local races, too.
04:57Mayoral races, state Supreme Court races, ballot measures, and even historic swings in the Georgia
05:03Public Service Commission, where two Democrats were elected statewide, I believe.
05:12Because Democrats – because – why did Democrats do so well?
05:17Because Americans are fed up with Republicans shooting their costs through the roof, particularly
05:22on health care, on tariffs, on their electric bills.
05:26And Americans saw that Democrats are the ones fighting for them, fighting for lower health
05:31care costs, fighting for working families.
05:35And while all this is happening, what is Donald Trump doing?
05:38Depriving hungry Americans of their SNAP benefits?
05:43Telling children, hungry children, we're going to cut off your food and use you as a pawn in this – in this shutdown, which the Republicans have caused?
05:53Telling the elderly who depend on that SNAP money to adequately feed themselves, the heck
06:02with you?
06:04Telling a veteran who has PTSD or a worker who is unemployed that we're not going to give
06:09you food?
06:10How callous, how cruel, how mean, how vindictive, and how calculatingly wrong.
06:20Americans saw the contrast between Democrats and Republicans in full effect last night.
06:28They saw that Trump is treating Americans, particularly needy Americans, as political pawns during the shutdown.
06:35One end of the country to the other, including battleground states, Democrats, independents,
06:40and even Republicans, rejected Donald Trump's policies and rejected hard-right elected officials.
06:47And let me say something else.
06:50After last night, Donald Trump ought to learn that his petty vindictiveness doesn't work.
06:58Here's one glaring example.
07:00He tried to axe federal funding for the gateway tunnel between New York and New Jersey, the
07:04biggest public works project in the country employing tens of thousands of workers and
07:09ensuring continued prosperity and good transportation in the entire Northeast Corridor.
07:15But he axed the funds.
07:17And he's axing the funds was aimed, in his mind, at Democratic leaders like Leader Jeffries
07:25and me.
07:26In the end, it totally backfired and became a big factor for voters making their decisions
07:32in New Jersey and electing Mikey Sherrill by an amazing 13 percentage points.
07:40And one of the main issues in that campaign was Donald Trump's vindictiveness in cutting
07:43off this tunnel and trying to use it, again, and all the workers, as a hostage.
07:51So again, let me say it again.
07:55Last night serves as a five-alarm fire for Republicans, a warning from the American people.
08:00They are tired of Donald Trump raising people's costs, raising health care costs, ignoring
08:05the needs of working people.
08:07The right way forward for Republicans and for all of America is to negotiate with Democrats,
08:12to reopen the government and extend the ACA premium tax credits.
08:20The American people have spoken, enough is enough.
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