Rick Santorum to Newsmax: Dems Delaying Megabill Over Trump Derangement

Sen. Chuck Schumer’s push for a full reading of the “big beautiful bill” before a Senate vote was “all about Trump derangement syndrome,” former Sen. Rick Santorum said on Newsmax Sunday. 

“This is not unusual for the Democrats to do these types of delaying tactics,” the Pennsylvania Republican commented in an interview on Newsmax’s “Sunday Report.” “It’s a hissy fit. They’re not going to change the outcome. They’re just simply trying to delay. And the reason they’re trying to delay is so they don’t meet President Trump’s deadline.”

The delay, he added, was “all about creating the image that they’re doing everything they can to slow this down and to fight Donald Trump,” Santorum said. “And it will do nothing other than to make people stick around on a Sunday and make folks in the Senate work by reading this bill.”

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