Chuck Schumer does not deteriorate and defends his decision to vote for the Republican budget law, despite the widespread condemnation of his party and calls him to resign from democratic leadership.
Last week, the Senate Leader of the Democrat became a member of a small group in the party who voted for the GOP Public Prosenses Act to prevent a closure of the government.
Schumer defended the decision and claimed that his party has no leverage and warns that a closure would “enable doe to move to overdrive” and President Donald Trump would give the keys to the city, the state and the country. '
Yet his reasoning was not enough to display furious members of his party to launch a total war war against the Democratic leader.
The 74-year-old legislator says that he did not repeat the mistakes of former President Joe Biden, who refused to step aside for months when Democrats were concerned about his viability for re-election.
He rejects all the claims that he is no longer on the pulse of the party and that his voice was intentional and, out of conviction, to prevent something worse from happening than a government is closed.
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer is confronted with more calls to resign – but he does not fold to the pressure
Schumer says he voted to prevent the government's closure, because he does not want to hand over total executive powers to President Donald Trump and Doge leader Elon Musk to let their cuts go even further
“Leader Schumer, do you feel busy to resign?” NBC meets the Pershost Kristen Welker asked the Senate Minority Leader.
“Look, I'm not resigning,” the New York Democrat lasted. “And let me just say this, Kristen – I knew that when I made my vote against the government closure it would be – that there would be a lot of controversy. And that was. '
“But let me and your audience tell me why I did it, why I thought it was so important,” he went on.
Schumer then stated how a closure would be '20 times worse 'than passing the continuous resolution bill supported by GOP, so that the government will be financed in the coming six months and a closure.
He said that Trump and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) would put an end to Snap, Gut Mass Transit and Medicaid, social security and veteran benefits.
'Under a shutdown, the executive has some power to determine what is' essential'. And they can determine without any supervision of the court, “Schumer detailed. 'The courts have ruled that it is exclusively for the executive power to close. With musk and doge and trump, and this guy [Russell] Vought … If the head is omb, they would expel the federal government. '
He said that Doge and Trump would be encouraged under a shutdown by how the federal government is able to survive and operate for that short period with limited staff and agencies.
Although it is true that there are selected essential services, agencies, departments and employees that go through a closure, it is a temporary accommodation when budgets do not continue and usually lead to a huge backlog as soon as it completely reopens.
Schumer claims that Musk and Trump would give more tax benefits to their billionaire friends, while reducing which democrats claim are essential government services that are financed by taxpayer dollars.
“It would [be] devastating, “said the leader. “There is no off-disaster. Who determines how long the closure would last? Only those bad people at the top of the executive power in the Trump government. '
Schumer told NBC to the Pershost Kristen Welker on Sunday that he did not repeat the mistakes of former President Joe Biden by refusing to fold into pressure to resign
Schumer has been under fire since Thursday when he announced on the Senate floor that he would vote for the Republican House Expensations Act to avert the government's closure
Schumer's actions have led to the calling for him for him by someone who is even more progressive-such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (DN.Y.).
But with a democratic party that is already struggling with relatibility and identity under the American voice block, others warn not to go even further.
As the Midterms approach from 2026, Democrats are concerned that if they lean more in the progressive movement of the party, they will be hard to be pressed to recover a majority in the house or the Senate.
Schumer has served in the Senate since 1999 and since the beginning of the 2000s in a variety of leadership roles within the party. Before that he was a member of the American House of Representatives for the 9th, 10th and 16th districts of New York at different times between 1981 and 1999.
More recently in his career, Schumer was an important role in encouraging Biden to stop from the presidential race of 2024 when Democrats had the feeling that he could no longer defeat Trump and that he did not have the 'fight' in him to lead the party more.
“I had conversations with Democrats, leader Schumer, who say that this moment is very similar,” Welker has announced in her Sunday interview at Meet The Press. “Do you make the same mistake that President Biden did?”
He shot back: 'No, absolutely not. I did this out of conviction. '
“In my caucus we are a disagreement about, you know, some people voted one way, some people voted the other,” he added. 'But we all agreed to respect each other, because each party saw why the other side felt so strong. And our caucus is united in fighting Donald Trump every step of the road. '
“It was a principle -you know?” he added. “Sometimes if you are a leader, you have to do things to prevent a real danger that may be in the curve.”
'I did it out of pure conviction about what a leader should do and what the right thing for America and my party was. People disagree. '
The View Hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin focused on Schumer during his appearance in the show last week to support the Republican account
In addition to Schumer, nine other Democrats voted to promote the bill for continuous resolution.
This includes sens. Dick Durbin (Ill.), Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.), John Fetterman (Penn.), Kirsten Gillibrand (NY), Maggie Hassan (NH), Gary Peters (Mich.), Brian Schatz (Hawaii), Jeanne Shacheen (NH) and Angus King, a Mainocratic.
Only Shaheen and King voted yes about the underlying Financing Act.
Cortez Masto repeated Schumer's concern about handing Trump and Musk more power to close the federal government. She also noted that in the meantime a closure would place thousands of federal employees on unpaid leave.
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul was the only Republican who voted in the opposition of both the procedural and the final voices for the Financing Act.
