Schumer, Democrats plot coordinated resistance to Trump's 'one ugly bill'

While congressional Republicans don't need Democrats to move the colossal bill to Trump's desk, Schumer wants to make the process as uncomfortable as possible as Senate Republicans begin a roughly monthlong sprint to put their fingerprints on what Trump deemed a "big, beautiful bill."

Thune said that Republicans' main focus during the next month would be ensuring that Trump's first-term tax cuts are made permanent with the massive bill and not allowed to expire by the end of the year on the Senate floor, marking the Senate's return on Monday. 

"We are not going to let that happen, and our biggest focus this month is completing this tax relief legislation with the goal of getting the final bill to the president before the Fourth of July," he said. "It's going to be a very busy month, Mr. President." 

In all, 10 Senate committees will be tasked with sifting through the massive bill's contents, which include the president's policy desires on taxes, immigration, energy, defense and the national debt.

Schumer's edict comes as those committees gear up to make their own revisions to the bill to, in part, fall in line with their own policy and spending desires and to also comply with Senate rules.

He noted that Senate Democrats have been working "overtime" to target a litany of policies in the GOP's plan that "are in clear violation of the reconciliation rules and, in some cases, an assault on our very democracy."

Some Republicans already have issues with certain policies in the bill, like cuts to Medicaid or the plan to move up the timeline to phase out green energy tax credits ushered in by the Biden administration.

Schumer also prodded Democrats to continue aggressively denouncing the bill on the ground in their home states and districts, arguing that "if the American people truly knew how deeply devastating, damaging, and deceitful this Republican plan is, they will reject it."

"Republicans' 'One Ugly Bill' is a farce; an attack on the values that make America great," he wrote. "We know the first four months of Donald Trump's presidency have been catastrophic for the American people. It is our duty to fight for American families, to stop the damage, and make certain Republicans are held accountable."