Senator Chuck Schumer

So when we saw how they decimated health care in June in their so-called Big Beautiful Bill, which we call the Big Ugly Bill.

And by the way, Donald Trump said, we better change the name because it's not very popular.

They thought it would be more popular than it was.

But the way they slashed lots of things, not just health care, but energy costs, your electricity bills are going to go up dramatically because of what they did, because they eliminated some of the best forms of producing energy, clean energy, wind, solar.

But health care in particular.

We said to the Republicans way in advance, let's sit down and negotiate.

And we started in July and Thune and Johnson, these are the two Republican leaders of the Senate and the House, said no.

And we wondered why.

And then in late August, early September, I don't remember exactly when, Trump said, we don't need the Democrats.

Well, of course they do because he needs 60 votes in the Senate and they got 53.

I was wondering what his math was like.

And so they didn't try to negotiate.

Finally, we did get Trump to sit down with us.

We asked Trump to sit down with us.

Once we found out that the two of them wouldn't do it

We asked Trump to sit down with us.

He said yes, and then the next day, you may remember, he said no, because Johnson said don't do it.

But he finally did the day before, but it was too late, and he didn't have a serious negotiation.

It was in the Oval Office, and he, well, two interesting things happened.

First, he didn't take it that seriously.