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March 14, 2025

NYPAN's Statement on the Senate's Vote on Trump's Budget Resolution
New York Senator Schumer's Betrayal

New York – Yesterday, in a historic betrayal of the overwhelming majority of his New York State constituents and workers of the United States, Senator Schumer allowed the Trump/Musk budget bill to win Senate approval and become law. Mislabeled as a “continuing budget resolution” or CR till the end of September, the bill not only contains deep cuts to social security, Medicaid, Veterans Hospitals, and many other vital services relied on by ordinary working Americans, but also gives the Trump/Musk authoritarian regime extraordinary, anti-democratic power over trillions of dollars in spending and repeals congressional safeguards and constraints in current law. It is nothing short of a complete surrender to Trump/Musk’s rule by decree and the effective dissolution of Congress’ role in governing and overspending set forth in the Constitution. Trump's statement today congratulating Schumer says it all.

Not only does the CR contain cuts in popular and vital programs, it gives Trump/Musk the power to redirect funds to the billionaires whom they primarily serve and which is their main objective. Their only way to succeed in providing trillions in tax cuts to Musk and his fellow billionaires is to gut the federal government of workers necessary to function, cutting hundreds of thousands of workers and trillions of dollars in “savings” necessary to fund those tax giveaways. They don’t hide their intentions, as Musk has proclaimed his aim is to “privatize everything”. Now, Schumer and his small band of collaborators have given them the power to take a huge step in that direction.

It is ironic that even the House Democrats under the leadership of a similarly ineffective group stuck together, with all but one member voting against the CR. It is also extremely disappointing that the Senate Dems missed an historic opportunity to win back the working class voters who abandoned the Democratic Party in the last few elections by simply taking a united principled position on this vote.

It is simply way past time for new leadership of the Democratic Party. They have twice nominated for President flawed candidates who lost virtually unlosable races to an unpopular felon by defending the status quo of oppressive inflation in the cost of housing, food, and medical care while supporting their complicity in funding war and genocide abroad. It is time for the Democrats to become a true opposition party. That cannot be done under the present leadership. The Democrats are failing. We need new leaders willing to do their job and represent the PEOPLE!

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