Chuck Schumer rebrands Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ to the ‘We’re All Going to Die Act’
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) attends a press
conference at the U.S. Capitol on June 04, 2025 in Washington, DC.
Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer characterized President Donald Trump’s
“Big, Beautiful Bill” to the “We’re All Going to Die Act,” due to the
legislation’s perceived Medicaid cuts.
The Trump administration has repeatedly explained that the reforms to
Medicaid are meant to root out waste, fraud, and abuse by implementing
measures to deny coverage to illegal immigrants and by denying certain
procedures and hormones for transgender-identifying individuals — while
further enhancing eligibility checks.
“For many Americans, health care coverage is the difference between life and death,” Schumer (D-N.Y.) stated on Wednesday.
Schumer’s revision of the bill is in reference to a comment by
Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) made at a recent town hall event. Ernst had
responded to an individual in the crowd who claimed that people were
going to die due to the bill’s health care cuts, to which she responded:
“Well, we all are going to die.”
“According to Ernst, ‘Fear not. We’re going to die anyway.’ Tell
that, the American people have heard. Let me be clear. Democrats are
ready. We are ready to fight,” Schumer continued.
“We are doubling down. We’re ready to show Americans what’s really at
stake here, because this fight won’t be won in just the Capitol. As Abe
Lincoln said, public sentiment is everything. And when public sentiment
hears about this ‘We’re All Going to Die Act,’ they’re going to hate
it, and they’re going to tell their senators they hate it. And if the
senators think they can get away with a yes vote and explain it, they’re
sadly mistaken. The cuts are too deep. The cuts are too real. The cuts
are too devastating for people.”
“Why are they being so mean? Why are they being so cruel? And why are
they being so politically tenured at best, suicidal at worst? All to
give tax breaks to billionaires. They are in total obeisance. Donald
Trump is, and his colleagues are to very very, the small group of very
wealthy, greedy people who say, ‘I don’t care what you do to everyone
else, cut my taxes. And by the way, get rid of any regulations,’” he
added.
UNHINGED: @SenSchumer
says "WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE" if we pass the largest tax cut in
history, block illegals from taxpayer-funded health care, and cut the
deficit.
In
a bizarre and seemingly morbid rant, Schumer lashes out over a
Republican health care bill—calling it the "We’re All Gonna Die Act" and
warning… pic.twitter.com/40y3gbAF16
Soon after, Ernst later clarified her comments, arguing that the
Democrats are attempting to “fearmonger against strengthening the
integrity of Medicaid.”
“I made an incorrect assumption that everyone in the auditorium
understood that, yes, we are all going to perish from this Earth. So, I
apologize,” she stated. “I’m really, really glad that I did not have to
bring up the subject of the tooth fairy as well.”
“While Democrats fearmonger against strengthening the integrity of
Medicaid, Senator Ernst is focused on improving the lives of all Iowans.
There’s only two certainties in life: death and taxes, and she’s
working to ease the burden of both by fighting to keep more of Iowans’
hard-earned tax dollars in their own pockets and ensuring their benefits
are protected from waste, fraud, and abuse,” an Ernst spokesperson
added.
Despite the Trump administration explaining the reasoning behind the
Medicaid cuts, Schumer still argued that the GOP president “is just
lying about the bill.”
“Let me tell our Republican Senate colleagues what will be enacted is
not Donald Trump’s soothing words, but the actual reality of harsh cuts
where people lose health care, where people’s premiums go up, where
hospitals close, nursing homes close, and people are laid off,” Schumer
stated. “So anyone who thinks they’re voting for the nice words of
Donald Trump will face a harsh reality when this is implemented.”
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