Chuck Schumer faces growing calls from House Democrats to step down
Chuck Schumer faces growing calls from House Democrats to step down
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?
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
Bernie isn't a Democrat, there's zero possibility that Senate Democrats would choose him to be their leader.
Well maybe not 0 possibility.
"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.
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
Especially the ones who voted with Schumer. He could've "urged" people to pass the CR all he wanted but he needed people complicit in voting with him.
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.
Torn on this. I see Schumer's point that shutdown could be riskier, but I also feel the Democrats need to do fucking something to resist the ruling party.
There are very much arguments for and against a shutdown.
The problem is that schumber blind sided the House (who had been behaving according to the plan they agreed on) and never bothered to actually speak to the American people outside of "I am going to support this because we will not allow the government to shut down" and did everything he could to legitimize this "bipartisan" budget.
The weird thing is he did get an essay that explained everything published by the NYT after the fact once it blew up in his face. He could have just shared all of that ahead of time instead of blindsiding everyone with his surprise change of heart and at least minimized the anger. You would think an experienced politician like him would know better but for some reason he did it in just about the worst possible way he could have done it.
Yeah that's bad. I suppose it's good he steps down. I'm not sure where I stand on shut down or not.
Congressional democrats from both houses settled on a plan together.
Chuckles decided he didn't like that plan, so he went rogue. Schumer may have had a valid argument, but was only able to convince ten out of 260 congressional democrats- both the house and senate- that this was a good plan.
Also, he apparently though that Chip "fuckwit" Roy and the rest of the freedumb fuckers wouldn't cave to Trump- despite them signalling that they would- all two weeks before this decision was made.
The furor isn't just about that he did it, that he caved. It's also about unity and loyalty.
I must be stupid.
If Maga wanted a shutdown (because Trump could "do things"), what stops them from voting "no" themselves and getting the shutdown they so desperately want? Nothing makes sense anymore.
Because it's win/win for them. And if they voted against the shutdown, and it happened, they can blame Democrats (they would anyway, but this would lend credence).
Either way, they continue to cripple our federal government.
Standing up to the illegimate russian regime's attempts to kill americans on medicaid and social security is not riskier than normalizing fascism.
Torn on this. I see Schumer’s point that shutdown could be riskier
If a shutdown poses a greater risk of republicans getting what they want, why did republicans vote for cloture?
I could see that as preemptive propaganda. If the Dems were the cause of the shutdown, the GOP could blame it on them. The GOP were very vocal this time around about "falling in line" to get it passed, assuming that the Dems were going to filibuster it.
But yeah like others have said in the thread, Schumer went about this all wrong, even if he had valid reasoning/concerns.
Growing implies that everyone didn't immediately demand it. Everyone not demanding it should announce they're not running for reelection.
" they were not fooled by the vote for it on cloture and vote against it on final passage."
I love how they're openly admitting this is a trick now, when so many Blue MAGA people fell all over themselves to justify it when they've done it in the past.
All the other assholes who are comparable to him tell him to gtfo because he said the quiet part a little to loud.
That's the worst part. Unless a radical replaces him, the normal program will continue. A radical who is able to whip the rest of them in shape by whatever means necessary, even if it contradicts the desires of some of their donors.
However seeing as he couldn't give less of a shit what democrats want will choose to remain in office as Republicans request
Motherfucker is geriatric anyway. Retirement should be required.
And growing calls from citizens to drop dead.
chuck Chuck.
Its time to chuck that turn cloak fuck!
I am not voting for him or gilibrand again
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"
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?
The thing is, he's playing chess while the Republicans don't give a fuck what chess is and are just flipping all the tables with games on them.
Schumer was faced with a lose-lose, so he chose the losier-lose of agreeing with the Pricktator rather than the winnier-won of fighting fascism.
I think I alliterated all over myself.
He's a loser. The Democratic party is full of losers. They lose election after election and still the same losers keep running the ship.
I'd like to see him step up to a guillotine. We can't all get all the things we'd like.
Fuck two-buck Chuck
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.