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.
“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.
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
Not being a piece of shit tends to have a positive impact on the longevity of your brain, it seems. Yes, I’m calling Biden a piece of shit too.
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.
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
