Democrats channel indignation about doge, Ukraine and more in the marathon senate session

Washington – The Budget resolution of Republicans Was on the agenda in the Senate, but the late-night debate included so much more.

Democrats used the nocturnal session that ended early on Friday morning as a platform for their indignation about what president Donald Trump has during His first month in officeAnd their warnings for what is still going.

Of the billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency Cut through the federal workforce On Trump’s attacks on Ukrainian President Volodyymyr Zenskyy on the GOP plan to Expand tax benefits, including for the rich And Cut of safety net programsmuch more than the budget window work of $ 340 billion Border security and deportations Come under the microscope.

Out of power In Washington, DC, the Democrats, instead, brought to the senate floor pages of amendments, so that the room kept long in Thursday evening and early Friday morning.

“People don’t send us here to make their lives worse. But that is exactly what Trump and Musk do, “said Senator Patty Murray, D-Wash., Launch the debate.

“They look at our most urgent problems – and make them so much worse. And this budget proposal only adds fuel to the fire. “

Senator Jeff Merkley van Oregon, the top democrat in the budget committee, tests a new term “Trumpflation” and asked something in the president “Big, beautiful, Bill” Would help Americans.

“Take this plan and put it in the ‘Woodchipper’,” said Merkley, re -used Musk’s Kwip about chopping the federal government. “There is nothing ‘beautiful’ about destroying programs on which families depend on.”

While the “mood-a-rama” dragged in for the small hours, Democrats proposed changes to support tax benefits for billionaires and millionaires, reverse doge dismissals of public employees and cuts on government services, the preservation of Medicaid, help Ukraine and on and on further.

Senator Michael Bennet from Colorado offered an amendment to restore the dismissed federal employees at the Forest Service, National Park Service and other public country agencies.

Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., Try to prevent bird flu from fighting in a time of rising prices of eggs.

Sen. Jack Reed from Rhode Island and Senator Jeanne Shaheen from New Hampshire wanted to take care of it Support Ukraine in the fight against Russia.

But none of them was approved.

Yet Democrats prefer to talk about almost anything but Trump’s plans for Immigrants deport and strengthen border securityThe most important provisions of the budget window work of $ 340 billion, which also includes financing for the Pentagon and the Coast Guard.

Those immigration -related issues divide the Democrats, who struggled during the autumn elections to prevent Trump’s deportation plans and still have not formed a ready answer.

Republicans liked to be on the disconnection while marching their budget framework to pass. It was approved, 52-48, with a mainly party country mood, an important step in the budget process. A Republican, Senator Rand Paul van Kentucky, opposed it, just like all Democrats.

The package must now synchronize with a house from the house, where speaker Mike Johnson Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” works with around $ 4.5 trillion in tax benefits and up to $ 2 trillion in cuts.

After the daily breakthrough, when senator Chris Coons, D-del., Offered an amendment to prevent “universityed and inexplicable” doge employees have access to the private information of Americans in government databases, Republicans brought it down on a voice voice, With a thunderous no.

After the various prohibitions about the tax benefits of billionaire have not elapsed, Senator Elizabeth Warren tried to block breaks of Massachusetts for those who earned $ 10 million. It had returned. Senator Mark Kelly from Arizona suggested that the limit would be set at $ 100 million. It failed. Senator Angus King van Maine tried $ 500 million. No.

Gop Senator John Kennedy from Louisiana rated the entire evening as similar to “Professional Wrestling” and reprimanded Democrats for drifting the subject. He said that the bill was about border protection, not the tax cuts, which would be tackled later.

At the start of the evening, Senator Bernie Sanders, a former chairman of the budget committee, spent time discussing his own ideas, including his plan to extend the social security benefits and to extend the coverage of Medicare Health Care to seniors access To be given to dental, vision and hearing aid benefits.

Vermont’s senator said it is unacceptable that millions of seniors cannot afford glasses, hearing aids or dentures.

“That should not happen in the United States of America in the year 2025,” said Sanders.

Then he discussed the remarkable suggestion of Trump, it was Ukraine that started the war, rather than Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of the country in 2022.

“Real?” Asked an incredible Sanders and urged colleague senators to express themselves. “That is, as I hope that every member of the Senate knows an absolute lie.”