Summary
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer faces mounting pressure from House Democrats to resign his leadership position after supporting a Republican government funding bill that most House Democrats opposed.
Representatives Delia Ramirez, Glenn Ivey, and the liberal group Indivisible have publicly called for his resignation, with more lawmakers potentially following suit.
Critics argue Schumer betrayed House Democrats by not fighting against a bill that failed to protect agencies from DOGE cuts, while Schumer maintains avoiding a shutdown was necessary to prevent Trump from downsizing government more rapidly.
Remember, it’s not just about policy.
Schumer publicly said he would support the shutdown, the privately lead a (very) small group of congressional democrats to vote for cloture. he basically led a mutiny against against the senate democrats he purportedly leads.
How can anyone- never mind fellow senators, and representatives- trust him to follow through?
“SENATE leader faces pressure from HOUSE Democrats” sounds great until you realize they have no means to force it to happen because they’re in the other chamber of Congress.
I want to know where the fuck is the “pressure” from other Democratic Senators who could actually apply consequences!
It’s still good for the House Dems to be doing this, though, calling attention to the problem so more people will call their Dem senators demanding that they take action as well.
Sure, it doesn’t hurt, but House Democrats’ focus should be on denouncing the quislings in their own chamber, since those are the ones they have the power to apply consequences to.
If that’s happening, I haven’t read any news about it.
Otherwise, having the Democrats criticize only across chambers while remaining silent within them starts to feel more like a tactic of avoiding accountability than one of applying it.
Only one House Dem voted yes on it (Jared Golden of Maine). So it passed 217-213 because R’s have the majority and one of them defected as well. So House Dems are holding together pretty well, but as long as the R’s also hold together there’s nothing they can do to stop them.
Only the Senate D’s could have stopped the bill, by voting against cloture (even though Dems are in the minority, cloture requires 60 votes). But not only Schumer but 9 other quislings (8 D’s and 1 I) voted with the fascists. List of them here. But Schumer is Leader so if he had taken a stand against it, probably some of those other 9 would have followed his lead and it could have been stopped.
I want to know where the fuck is the “pressure” from other Democratic Senators who could actually apply consequences!
too busy clutching pearls and massaging their stock portfolios
Put Bernie in charge. We need someone with a heart that beats.
I’m surprised that Sanders is older than both Trump and Biden but retains about twice as much virility as either of them and about four times as much sanity as Trump
It kills me because he did have a heart issue during the 2020 campaign and it really did kill some momentum he had. But obviously it didn’t last in any substantive way.
The DNC would never let him. That’s the world we are in. The nominal opposition party is too concerned with fundraising and just not being the fascist party to do a damn thing.
We need a leftist tea party or a new party. Both are huge hills to climb, but I don’t see the Democrats doing shit.
I think we need a new party. Schumer is/ has pretty much tanked any chance at a midterm comeback with this form of governance. Democrats have somehow become less popular while Trump lights the world on fire and pisses on its ashes. The brand is toast. No one wants to vote for Democrats and no one should want to be a Democrat.
The midterms are still 18 months away. 18 months before the last election, Republicans were still bickering over who they wanted their speaker to be and obviously they won that last one so anything is possible.
DNC plan is to swoop in at election time with a batch of zionist war criminal candidates who offer to shit the bed 5% less than trump does, and see if that works.
I wish I was joking but thats literally their plan. Wait for trump to irritate us enough to accept what the donors want without any changes. They learned absolutely nothing in the past 2 decades.
It’s so damn frustrating
Four times??? We’re almost diving by zero here. Sanders is basically infinity times more sane.
He’s never been president. That job ages you a decade or more.
True, true.
It’s worth discussing what Trump would do with a government shutdown, but Schumer seems so out of touch.
Why can’t AOC’s politics take hold 😞
because AOC’s politics would mean Schumer’s
book salesbribes start falling.
However seeing as he couldn’t give less of a shit what democrats want will choose to remain in office as Republicans request
All the other assholes who are comparable to him tell him to gtfo because he said the quiet part a little to loud.
And growing calls from citizens to drop dead.
chuck Chuck.
Motherfucker is geriatric anyway. Retirement should be required.
I am not voting for him or gilibrand again
Wondering, could it be some high stakes gamble by Schumer - let the Republicans gut SS and Medicare in the hopes of picking up massive support in the midterms? If it goes wrong and there isn’t a surge in support, then only 10 Dems ate exposed to voter wrath, and how many of the 10 are up for re-election soon?
If we are deporting random people for nonsense reasons, how do we add Schumer to that list? I heard him utter some antisemitic things, I swear. I felt threatened on semites behalf and laws are laws, right.
/s I’m just kidding, about “laws being laws”
Schumer is right. A shut down would have allowed trump to enact emergency powers and then there would be no further votes.
trump is going ahead and doing whatever he wants anyway, regardless of laws or court orders, with the full support of the R party which is in the majority in both Houses anyway.
