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- Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer found himself in an awkward spot at Biden’s State of the Union.
- President Biden was comparing how the Trump tax cuts benefited the rich to his American Rescue Plan.
- Before Biden could finish, Republicans booed and Schumer was stuck trying to gin up applause.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was briefly stuck in a Jeb Bush-esque moment on Tuesday night during President Joe Biden’s first State of the Union address.
Biden was in the middle of a line comparing President Donald Trump’s tax cuts with his own administration’s American Rescue Plan, the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill passed in March.
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“Unlike the $2 trillion tax cut passed in the previous administration, that benefited the top 1% of Americans, the American Rescue plan—” Biden said before Congressional Republicans began booing him.
Schumer, caught in the lurch, popped up to get his colleagues to clap as Biden ended the sentence.
“The American Rescue plan helped working people and left no one behind,” Biden said, as Schumer was finally joined in applause by Democrats in the chamber.
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