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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Standing up to the illegimate russian regime’s attempts to kill americans on medicaid and social security is not riskier than normalizing fascism.