Max Schachter, whose son was killed in the 2018 Parkland school shooting, speaks out after Sen. Chuck Schumer blocked a school safety bill named after his son.
On the Senate floor Wednesday, Schumer said the school safety bill could be considered if Republicans agreed to debate on the domestic terrorism bill. A vote on the domestic terrorism bill failed along party lines Thursday, with all Republicans voting against.
"Everybody and their brother would have told you that the GOP was going to block it, which they did today. And so now where are we?" Schachter said. Schachter appeared on NewsNation’s"Morning in America" earlier Thursday, saying he came up with the idea for a federal school safety clearinghouse because school districts after the Parkland shooting received so much duplicative and conflicting information on best practices from federal agencies that made it confusing and ineffective. The website instead creates a"one-stop shop," he said, and the bill would make it law.