Senate Democrats’ tactics to delay proceedings have concluded, yet Senate Republicans are still quite far from conducting a final vote on President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill.”
On Saturday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) utilized a procedural strategy that mandated Senate clerks to read the entire text of the 940-page bill supported by the GOP. This reading extended well into Sunday, taking almost 16 hours to finish, as reported by Fox News.
Prior to the ultimately successful—albeit contentious—procedural vote, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer declared that he would require clerks to read the complete bill aloud. After the nearly 16-hour reading was completed, Schumer took to X to state, “Republicans are squirming.”
“I know for a fact they haven’t read the bill, so we’re going to make them,” he remarked, although it is noted that Democrats seldom read their own lengthy bills, leading some to label Schumer’s action as a political maneuver.
