Schumer forced a full reading of 940 pages of Republican bill to delay Senate vote

Senate Supreme Democrats plan to bring the greatest pain to Senate Republicans in the march to pass the president Donald Trump’s The “big and beautiful bill” before lawmakers even had the opportunity to debate the legislative behemoth.

Indeed, Senate Minority Leader Chuck SchumerDN.Y. plans to force Senate floor clerks to read the Republican 940 pages of Megabill’s entire. He will waste as much time as possible after Republicans voted to debate legislation on key process tests.

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Schumer said on X: “I will oppose Republicans moving forward without having to read their big ugly bill on the Senate floor.

“So the Democrats forced it to start to finish on the floor,” he said. “If that were to be read, we’d be here all night.”

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) spoke at a press conference after the Senate Republican Policy Lunch at the U.S. Capitol on June 17, 2025. (Getty Image)

Indeed, staff were seen transporting the bill to the Senate floor to prepare for the night of reading.

Schumer’s move is expected to take up to 15 hours, designed to allow Senate Democrats There is more time to parse numerous provisions in the large-scale legislative text. Eventually, it will prove to be Senate Republicans The last vote will continue.

Once the bill is finished reading, the debate between Democrats and Republicans is evenly distributed for 20 hours, which may begin early Sunday morning. Democrats are expected to use the entire 10-hour chunk, while Republicans will go further under the time they allocated.

Then there is the “voting” process where lawmakers can provide an unlimited number of amendments to the bill.

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Democrats will once again seek to extract as much pain as possible in the process, while Republicans, especially lingering senators in key Medicaid and land sales rules, will continue to try to create and shape the bill.

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The last time that was forced to read the entire bill in the budget settlement process was in 2021, when Senate Democrats held the majority in the House of Lords.

At that time, the senator Ron JohnsonR-Wis. The entire 600-page American rescue law was required to be read aloud. Schumer, the Senate Majority Leader, tried to beat the agenda of then-President Joe Biden through the House of Lords against reading.