{"id":710134,"date":"2021-09-02T13:50:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T17:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=710134"},"modified":"2021-09-02T13:50:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T17:50:19","slug":"woe-is-us-woe-is-us-chuck-schumer-uses-post-storm-press-conference-to-sell-3-5t-reconciliation-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woe-is-us-woe-is-us-chuck-schumer-uses-post-storm-press-conference-to-sell-3-5t-reconciliation-package\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Woe Is Us. Woe Is Us\u2019: Chuck Schumer Uses Post-Storm Press Conference To Sell $3.5T Reconciliation Package"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwoe-is-us-woe-is-us-chuck-schumer-uses-post-storm-press-conference-to-sell-3-5t-reconciliation-package%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=710134&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-02-at-12.06.43-PM-e1630602537710.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Democrat Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer used a post-Hurricane Ida press conference in&nbsp; New York Thursday to sell the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package recently trotted out by his Democratic colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>During the press conference, Schumer claimed that the record amounts of rainfall and flooding in New York from Tropical Storm Ida were the result of global warming. He then said that Congress should pass the infrastructure bill and the budget reconciliation bill to address this issue.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"7.2723214285714\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sen. Chuck Schumer: \u201cWoe is us if we don\u2019t recognize these changes are due to climate change. Woe is us if we don\u2019t do something about it quickly.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XDHJ5VHcp4\">pic.twitter.com\/XDHJ5VHcp4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Hill (@thehill) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thehill\/status\/1433447295303962626?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cGlobal warming is upon us, and it\u2019s gonna get worse and worse and worse unless we do something about it. That\u2019s why it is so imperative to pass the two bills, the infrastructure bill, and the budget reconciliation bill,\u201d Schumer <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/570570-schumer-calls-for-action-on-climate-after-ida-flooding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a>. \u201cWoe is us if we don\u2019t recognize these changes are due to climate change. Woe is us if we don\u2019t do something about it quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schumer claimed the budget reconciliation bill deals with climate change and will reduce the amount of carbon that the U.S. puts in the air. He also argued that it is meant to build \u201cresilient\u201d infrastructure that can handle floods or fires. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/17\/chuck-schumer-raps-bill-de-blasio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Nobody Asked For This Video Of Chuck Schumer Attempting To Rap, And Yet It Exists)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/14\/mitch-mcconnell-rips-democrats-3-trillion-budget-deal-infrastructure-reconciliation-package\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">features<\/a> provisions for free community college, universal pre-K, and a nationwide paid-leave program. The bill will also <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/14\/democrats-chuck-schumer-bernie-sanders-infrastructure-budget-reconciliation-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">include<\/a> expansions to Medicare for dental, hearing, and vision coverage. It will go through the reconciliation process, which means that any Republican filibuster could be bypassed, and would then be passed on a party-line vote, as previously reported.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer\u2019s press conference followed the destruction in the northeast from Tropical Storm Ida. The storm resulted in the deaths of nine people in New York and New Jersey, as well as flooding and power outages, as previously <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/02\/hurricane-ida-flooding-northeast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. Hurricane Ida first made landfall Sunday, and hit Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/30\/hurricane-ida-louisiana-mississippi-alabama-florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">leaving<\/a> over one million people without power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer used a post-Hurricane Ida press conference in\u00a0 New York Thursday to sell the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package recently trotted out by his Democratic colleagues.During &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}