Schumer: Trump is ‘Santa to the Rich, Scrooge to the poor’

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) ripped President Trump on Sunday after a report that Trump told friends hours after signing the GOP tax bill that they “just got a lot richer.”

“.@realDonaldTrump’s Christmas Eve pronouncement from Mar-a-Lago: Santa to the Rich, Scrooge to the poor,” Schumer tweeted.

.@realDonaldTrump’s Christmas Eve pronouncement from Mar-a-Lago: Santa to the Rich, Scrooge to the poor: https://t.co/jcyF3ulsws

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) December 24, 2017

Trump reportedly told friends at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Friday that they all just got wealthier.

“You all just got a lot richer,” Trump said at a dinner, two friends at a table near the president told CBS News.

{mosads}Trump late last week signed the sweeping Republican tax bill into law, marking his first major legislative accomplishment since winning the White House.

Trump and congressional Republicans have been pushing for tax reform for several months. Trump has pitched the tax-reform plan as a boon to the middle class.

Democrats, though, have argued that the largest benefits will go to wealthy Americans like the president.