Millions Will Lose Health Care: Schumer as Senate Advances Deal to Reopen Government After 40 Days

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer delivered a passionate message as the U.S. Senate prepared to vote on ending a 40-day government shutdown. “However this vote turns out, this fight will and must continue,” Schumer declared, warning that millions of families could lose health care coverage. The bipartisan bill would reopen the government through January 2026 and include key funding measures.  #ChuckSchumer #GovernmentShutdown #USSenate

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00:00Mr. President, America is in the midst of a Republican-made healthcare crisis.

00:08Worse than anything the American people have seen in decades, Republicans have spent the

00:14past 10 months dismantling the healthcare system, skyrocketing costs, and making every

00:20day harder for American families.

00:24Because of Republicans, Americans are going to suffer immensely as this healthcare crisis

00:29gets worse.

00:31Democrats have been fighting to end this crisis over and over again.

00:35Democrats have wanted a lower cost, but Republicans fought us every step of the way.

00:39We gave Republicans not one, not two, but three chances this year to extend the ACA premium

00:46tax credits.

00:48Republicans said no every time.

00:50On Friday, we offered Republicans a compromise, a proposal that would extend the ACA tax credits

00:56for a year and open up the government at the same time.

01:00They once again said no.

01:03And when they said no on our compromise, they showed that they are against any healthcare

01:08reform.

01:09Instead, they passed the biggest healthcare cuts in our nation's history just to give

01:14tax breaks to billionaires.

01:16And even then, they weren't satisfied with merely closing hospitals and community health

01:21clinics.

01:22They've callously did nothing to deal with the looming crisis of ACA credits.

01:28Premiums will spike by thousands of dollars a month.

01:30Millions will lose insurance.

01:32Democrats have sounded the alarm.

01:34We have demanded for months to meet with the Republican leadership.

01:39But Republican leaders refuse to even discuss the issue, let alone negotiate it.

01:43We've asked them to meet in the summer and throughout the shutdown.

01:47To this day, Republicans still say no.

01:50We asked President Trump to step in and meet with us to deliver lower healthcare for Americans.

01:55And instead, Donald Trump has taken the American people hostage.

02:01From cutting off food, aid to hungry families and vets and seniors and kids.

02:06To manufacturing flight cancellations.

02:09To cutting off home heating aid.

02:11While he builds a billion-dollar ballroom with gold-plated toilets.

02:16Therefore, therefore, I must vote no.

02:20This healthcare crisis is so severe, so urgent, so devastating for families back home that I

02:27cannot in good faith support this CR that fails to address the healthcare crisis.

02:35But let me be clear, however this vote turns out, this fight will and must continue.

02:43Democrats must fight because millions of families will lose healthcare coverage.

02:47We must fight because children who are dying of cancer will not get healthcare coverage.

02:54We must fight because a senior citizen cannot afford to pay $25,000 a year just for health

03:00insurance.

03:02We must fight to keep millions from financial ruin.

03:05And make no mistake about it, the American people know who is inflicting this healthcare

03:11trauma on them.

03:13Donald Trump and the Republicans.

03:17Americans will remember a Republican intransigence every time they make a sky-high payment on health

03:21insurance.

03:23So we are going to fight legislatively.

03:25Fight back home.

03:26Fight in the courts.

03:27And bring this fight in the elections.

03:31Healthcare costs made a major impact on the 2025 election.

03:35And they will certainly have an even greater impact on the 2026 election.

03:40So in conclusion, the contrast between the two parties is crystal clear.

03:48Americans are the party hell-bent on taking people's healthcare away, all to bow to the billionaire

03:54elite and special interests.

03:57Democrats are united as the party of lower healthcare costs and improving our healthcare system.

04:04We will not give up this fight.

04:06We will deliver for the American people.

04:08I yield the floor.

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