参议院共和党人指责民主党在中期选举前搁置审批改革与能源法案，借此搞政治把戏
2026年9月30日 美国东部时间早上5:00 / 福克斯新闻
作者：亚历克斯·米勒，福克斯新闻
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民主党正将自己包装成美国人面临的经济困境的解决方案，以此争夺国会席位，但他们早已习惯阻挠共和党解决生活成本问题的尝试。
负担能力已成为民主党11月选举日前民主党竞选宣传的核心议题，他们将其当作政治大棒，从密歇根到得克萨斯州的左翼候选人正用这一话题抨击共和党。
但在参议院，解决这些问题需要合作与妥协，共和党人称他们的跨党派同僚破坏了这一进程。周三，他们将有最后一次机会通过一项针对数据中心和选民钱包的法案，部分解决这一问题，但参议院少数党领袖、纽约州民主党参议员查克·舒默及其党团准备否决该法案。
首项数据中心法案在众议院获通过，两党争相拿出负担能力问题解决方案
2026年7月22日，参议院少数党领袖、纽约州民主党参议员查克·舒默在华盛顿国会山的新闻发布会上发言。舒默与其他民主党人一同讨论了保护选举免受所谓共和党影响的计划。（盖蒂图片社）
“我认为现在整件事就是，你知道的，在所有这些议题上搞政治把戏，为选举造势，”参议院多数党领袖、南达科他州共和党议员约翰·图恩告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。“我认为，你看到的是，这是‘反对党’，不肯接受可行方案，只想在选举前将所有事情政治化。”
当被问及搁置数据中心法案以及另一项禁止国会议员股票交易的法案是否会逆转民主党在选战宣传时，图恩说：“嗯，这会让民主党很难再拿这个说辞。”
民主党人认为搁置这项法案不会损害他们在负担能力问题上的宣传，尤其是因为该法案缺乏约束力——针对数据中心等大用电量客户偿还电力使用成本的许多要求都是自愿性的。
舒mer将数据中心法案斥为纯粹出于政治动机，旨在帮助一位面临艰难竞选的脆弱候选人，该候选人正与前参议员谢罗德·布朗角逐11月的选举，尽管本月初仅有3名众议院民主党人投了反对票。
**选举新议题引发焦虑，但共和党称华盛顿并非解决方案
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“因为我们不会为欺诈行为投票，”当被问及参议院民主党人为何不会投票支持该法案时，舒默说。“这是自愿的。没有任何一家公司必须遵守。”
康涅狄格州民主党参议员克里斯·墨菲告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，如果“你们尽职尽责地解释该法案毫无作用”，那么民主党面临的政治风险将很低。
“它毫无作用，所以人们都知道这一点，但他们面临的政治风险比我们大，”墨菲说。
当被问及是否担心否决该法案会损害他们在竞选活动中最有力的武器时，新泽西州民主党参议员安迪·金告诉福克斯新闻数字频道：“绝对不会。”
“美国民众能看穿这纯粹的政治把戏。他们知道这项法案对赫斯特德参议员有利，但不一定对他们有利，因为它——它没有任何能够真正推动变革的内容，”金说。
共和党担忧中期选举前“一事无成
不过，并非所有民主党人都想彻底否决共和党最新的负担能力举措。
马里兰州民主党参议员克里斯·范·霍伦并不完全反对让该法案通过，但他希望图恩保证他的《人民权力法案》将获得修正案投票，为该法案增加监管力度。
“你想解决负担能力问题，就需要采取切实可行的措施，”范·霍伦告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。“只要图恩参议员表示将就《人民权力法案》进行投票，那么毫无疑问，我们应该推进这项法案。”
2026年6月1日，马里兰州民主党参议员克里斯·范·霍伦在华盛顿国会山前往投票时与记者交谈。参议院多数党领袖、南达科他州共和党议员约翰·图恩与参议院共和党人正在应对唐纳德·特朗普总统的“反武器化”基金及其对本周通过和解法案的影响。（盖蒂图片社）
这并非民主党在中期选举前临近终点时否决或至少削弱的唯一一项旨在解决负担能力问题的尝试。
共和党领导人原本希望在选举前的最后冲刺阶段在参议院就审批改革法案达成协议，该法案将降低能源项目成本并全面改革监管程序，但民主党上周放弃了该协议。
“我得说，所有条件都完美契合，本可以达成这项协议，”领导审批改革推动工作的俄克拉荷马州共和党议员艾伦·阿姆斯特朗告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。“在如此复杂的议题上，这种情况并不常见。因此这非常令人失望。”
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据报道，该协议已重新提上日程，但要等到选举后国会跛脚鸭国会会期期间处理，此前多项议程已被搁置，可能永远不会有下文。
尽管如此，共和党在选举后仍需要民主党人的支持才能通过任何法案，而两党在民主党控制参议院近两年以来的两党合作记录起起落落。
“我的意思是，我们有53名共和党议员，你需要60票。我早就应该打破阻挠议事规则了，这样我们就能完成更多工作，”阿拉巴马州共和党议员汤米·塔伯维尔告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。“但我们浪费了特朗普总统的一年半时间。”
亚历克斯·米勒是福克斯新闻数字频道记者，负责报道美国参议院事务。
Schumer preaches affordability in Dem midterm pitch while sabotaging GOP fixes for soaring costs
Senate Republicans say Democrats are playing politics by sinking permitting reform and energy bills before the midterms
September 30, 2026 5:00am EDT / Fox News
By Alex Miller, Fox News
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Democrats are pitching themselves as the answer to the economic woes Americans are facing in their pursuit of power in Congress, but they have made a habit of blocking the GOP’s attempts to tackle cost of living issues.
Affordability has become the centerpiece of the Democrats’ campaign messaging heading into Election Day in November, and they’ve wielded it like a political cudgel that left-wing candidates from Michigan to Texas are using to browbeat Republicans.
But in the Senate, it requires cooperation and compromise to tackle those issues, and Republicans say that their colleagues across the aisle have bedeviled that process. They’ll have one last shot Wednesday to address a sliver of the issue with a bill targeting data centers and voters’ pocketbooks, but Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and his caucus are poised to block it.
FIRST DATA CENTER BILL CLEARS HOUSE AS BOTH PARTIES SCRAMBLE FOR ANSWERS ON AFFORDABILITY
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during a press conference on Capitol Hill on July 22, 2026, in Washington, D.C. Schumer was joined by other Democrats as they discussed plans to protect elections from alleged Republican influence.(Getty Images)
“I think right now, the whole thing is just, you know, play politics with all these issues and get to the election,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., told Fox News Digital. “I think that, you know, what you’re seeing is that this is the party of no, can’t take yes for an answer, and is interested in just trying to politicize everything going into the election.”
When asked if blocking the data center bill, and another that would ban members of Congress from trading stocks, could turn the table on Democrats’ messaging, Thune said “Well, it makes it pretty hard for Democrats to make that argument.”
Democrats don’t believe that blocking the bill from Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, would hurt their affordability message, particularly because the legislation lacks teeth — many of the requirements for large-load customers, like data centers, to repay their electricity usage are optional.
Schumer trashed the data center bill as being purely politically motivated to bolster a vulnerable candidate staring down a tough race in November against former Sen. Sherrod Brown, even though only three House Democrats voted against it earlier this month.
ANXIETY GROWS OVER EMERGING ELECTION ISSUE, BUT GOP SAYS WASHINGTON ISN’T THE ANSWER
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“Because we don’t vote for frauds,” Schumer said when asked why Senate Democrats wouldn’t vote for it. “It’s voluntary. Not a single company has to comply with it.”
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., told Fox News Digital that if “you guys do your job and explain that the the bill does nothing,” the political ramifications would be low for Democrats.
“It does nothing, and so people know that, but there’s more political risk for them than for us,” Murphy said.
When asked if there was a concern that shutting the bill down could hamper their best weapon on the campaign trail, Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., told Fox News Digital, “Absolutely not.”
“The American people can see through just the politics of this. They know that this bill is good for Senator Husted, but not necessarily for them, because it’s not — it doesn’t have anything that would actually force change,” Kim said.
REPUBLICANS FEAR THEY ‘HAVEN’T DONE A DAMN THING’ TO LOWER PRICES AHEAD OF MIDTERM RECKONING
Not all Democrats want to outright kill the GOP’s latest affordability push, however.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., isn’t totally against allowing the legislation to proceed, but he wants a guarantee from Thune that his bill, the Power for the People Act, would get an amendment vote to add some regulatory heft to the measure.
“You want to address the affordability issue, you need to do something real,” Van Hollen told Fox News Digital. “As soon as Senator Thune says he’ll have a vote on Power for the People Act, then for sure, we should go forward.”
Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., talks to reporters as he heads for a vote at the U.S. Capitol on June 1, 2026, in Washington, D.C. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and Senate Republicans are navigating President Donald Trump’s “anti-weaponization” fund and its impact on passing a reconciliation bill this week.(Getty Images)
It’s not the only attempt at grappling with affordability issues that Democrats have sunk, or at least kneecapped, near the finish line before the midterms.
Republican leaders wanted to get a deal on permitting reform, which would lower costs on energy projects and reform the regulatory process writ large, on the floor during this final sprint before the election, but Democrats walked away from the deal last week.
“I would tell you, all the chemistry, I think, was perfect for getting this deal done,” Sen. Alan Armstrong, R-Okla., who has led the permitting reform push told Fox News Digital. “And that doesn’t happen very often on such a complex issue. So it’s very disappointing.”
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The deal is reportedly back on, but won’t be handled until after the election during Congress’ lame duck period, where several agenda items have been punted that may never see the light of day.
Still, Republicans will need Democrats to get anything post-election, and the track record of bipartisanship over the near two years that they’ve controlled the chamber has ebbed and flowed.
“I mean, we got 53 Republicans, you got to have 60. I’d have busted the filibuster a long time ago and we would’ve had a lot more done,” Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., told Fox News Digital. “But we wasted a year and a half of President Trump.”
Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.
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