Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said Democrats will use “all the tools and tactics” they can to stop the new Republican effort to repeal ObamaCare, legislation he called “the most cruel and outrageous.”

“We are preparing and planning to use every tool and tactic available to us because we are on the precipice of one of the most cruel and outrageous legislative acts in recent history,” Blumenthal told CNN’s “The Situation Room.”

Blumenthal’s comments come as Sens. Lindsey Graham Lindsey Olin GrahamMcConnell locks down key GOP votes in Supreme Court fight Will Republicans' rank hypocrisy hinder their rush to replace Ginsburg? Momentum growing among Republicans for Supreme Court vote before Election Day MORE (R-S.C.) and Bill Cassidy William (Bill) Morgan CassidyCoushatta tribe begins long road to recovery after Hurricane Laura Senators offer disaster tax relief bill Bottom line MORE (R-La.) push their new bill, which would repeal much of ObamaCare by converting funding into block grants to states.

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Blumenthal slammed the GOP’s last-ditch effort, which comes days before the Sept. 30 deadline for when the reconciliation process that blocks Democrats from filibustering the legislation, expires.

“And the attempt to do at the eleventh hour, literally in the last seven days from this Friday, what they’ve failed to do in the last seven years, this obsession with repeal and replace,” Blumenthal said.

“It’s a sequel to the horror movie we went through, a bad sequel, meaner and crueler.”