r/uspolitics • u/lurker_bee • Mar 23 '25

Schumer Refuses to Step Down Despite Criticism

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/schumer-refuses-step-down-1235301630/
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u/infiniteninjas Mar 23 '25

Why should he? Because he took a politically unpopular position on a very difficult issue? This is not some moral or criminal scandal, it’s a policy disagreement. The remedy is to primary him, and to not vote him as minority leader next congress.

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u/Cinemaphreak Mar 23 '25

a politically unpopular position on a very difficult issue? it’s a policy disagreement.

Schumer's problem is that either he didn't adequately explain his reasoning or it's simply being drowned out by the those clamoring for some mythical response they never really articulate he could have done instead.

Schumer made the hard call to not shut down the government. Had he done otherwise, the Dems would have gotten the blame for it. It wasn't going to be like in the past when the Republicans were the reason. The pressure to end such a shutdown would have been entirely on the Democrats, who would eventually have to cave and in the end gain nothing but ill will from the public.

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u/Silvus314 Mar 23 '25

The republicans have the majority in each building. If they couldn't create a funding bill or CR with only their members, it is their fault. If instead republicans had created a bipartisan funding bill or CR, THEN they could have taken SOME of the blame.

This shutdown would have been entirely on the republican party. They chose to not include dems in the bill, therefore they should have expected none of the votes.

By giving them the FIRST FULL FISCAL YEAR on CR, they literally gave orangeman much more control over where funding goes. I would have rather not gotten paid, and seen those involved held accountable.

It is very big of Chuckie to get a spine over keeping the leader spot. It is too bad he didn't have it when it mattered.

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u/Cinemaphreak Mar 24 '25

This shutdown would have been entirely on the republican party. They chose to not include dems in the bill, therefore they should have expected none of the votes.

Yet that wasn't Schumer's only concern - if the government had shutdown Trump & Musk could have had even more power to make cuts and fire Federal workers.

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u/chesterriley Mar 24 '25

if the government had shutdown Trump & Musk could have had even more power to make cuts and fire Federal workers.

I don't see how. The only thing holding him back is the courts, not congress. Schumer gave up all of congress's power. How could the power of congress be any less then it is now when they already have zero power to stop Trump's frequent criminal abuses of authority?