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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Friday said that while he has made efforts to work with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to deliver for the American people, House Republicans have been focused on creating “more chaos” and promoting “ultra MAGA proposals.”
Make America Go Away on its way, as GOP intended it. >

“House Republicans have been focused on creating more chaos and promoting ultra MAGA proposals.”
Of course they have. McCarthy made concessions to these extremist MAGA Republicans and now it’s time to pay the bill. 
Clicks and chaos is what they thrive on. When C-SPAN spanned to Gaetz and Boebert after the 14th round of voting for the Speakership, and they were both laughing on their phones, it was clear they think this is all a fucking joke.  
They know their constituents are addicted to outrage porn. And the more outrage they can generate the more fundraising they can do. Really unbelievable behavior and a dangerous time in American history. >

Unfortunately, it's what many of their voters want. >

This is America >

I want to leave >

Chuck Schumer's letter to his fellow Senate Democrats:
Dear Colleague:
The Senate Democratic majority is in a stronger position to tackle the challenges facing our 
country than anyone ever expected. As we did these past two years, we will look for 
opportunities to reach across the aisle and work in a bipartisan way to lower costs for American families, create good paying jobs, fund our government, protect our national security and more. 
Unfortunately, what we’ve seen this week from House Republicans is more chaos and ultra 
MAGA proposals. I want to work with Speaker McCarthy to get things done, but so far, House 
Republicans have been focused on delivering for wealthy special interests and the extreme wing of their party. 

Their first action this week was to allow large corporations and wealthy 

individuals to continue to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. Republicans 
perpetuate the myth they’re protecting the middle class, just as they did with the 2017 
Trump tax bill. It didn’t work then and it won’t work now. Americans know in reality 
Republicans are pushing tax breaks for tax cheats and the wealthiest Americans and 
businesses.

House Republicans have made clear that they will roll annual Appropriations 

funding for FY24 back to FY22 levels. That means significant cuts to funding for 
NIH, opioids and mental health, housing assistance, child care and child nutrition, law 
enforcement and public safety, science and innovation, and veteran assistance 
programs. Combined these cuts put America’s security at risk. Democrats won’t let that 
happen. That’s why Appropriations Committee Chair Patty Murray and Ranking 
Member Susan Collins announced this week they are beginning a bipartisan 
appropriations process for FY24.

They have also signaled their plan to slash essential programs like Social Security, 

Medicare, Medicaid, and federal student loan programs. Republicans can’t say 
they want to help middle class Americans while simultaneously attacking the bedrock 
programs that families rely on. Senate Democrats will protect those essential programs.

House Republicans continued their all-out assault on women’s health, proposing 

legislation that once again shows they are hell-bent on enacting a nationwide 
abortion ban. Their extreme views are dangerously out of touch with mainstream 
America, and Senate Democrats will ensure women will have their health care 
strengthened, not undermined. 

We’ve seen them impanel a conspiracy committee to undermine and threaten law 

enforcement, showing they’re more interested in defending January 6th
insurrectionists and carrying water for the disgraced former president than 
protecting democracy. Senate Democrats will be a firewall against this extremism.

At a time when we should be working together to bring down costs for families, 

Republicans have proposed a national sales tax bill that would raise taxes on 
middle class Americans. Meanwhile, the Inflation Reduction Act Democrats passed 
last year has lowered costs and put more money in Americans’ pockets. 
Americans care about what House Republicans do not what they say. This week they’ve seen the House actions as part of the same ultra MAGA agenda voters rejected in the last election. 
It is always my first choice to try and find common ground and work in a bipartisan way to enact meaningful legislation, just as we did in the previous Congress; and it is my hope that the nonMAGA Republicans will reject the extremists in their party and work with us to deliver real results. 
But if Republicans follow the extreme wing of their party off a cliff and continue caving to 
election deniers and those who threaten our democracy and help the wealthy at the expense at the of the working class, Democrats must make clear to the American people that we will fight tooth and nail against these attacks. 
I look forward to continuing this work with all of you in the 118th Congress. >

God please say this is real. PLEASE.