Chuck Schumer postpones the arrests of the book tour in the middle of the arrest vote against the vote | Chuck Schumer
The head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, has postponed several judgments during a tour to promote his new book, citing security problems, while the Democrat of New York faces the intensification of the counterposer on his vote to support a bill of expenditure written by the Republicans and avoid a closure of the government.
Schumer had to participate in events Baltimore,, WashingGTON DCNew York City and Philadelphia This week to discuss his new book, Anti -Semitism in America: a warningwhich should be published on Tuesday. The dates of the tour had to be reprogrammed, but the cancellation aroused criticism of the two political wings.
The progressives broke out in the fury of his decision last week to yield and help the Republicans to adopt a Stopgap financing bill that many Democrats have warned that Donald Trump and Elon Musk even more discretionary to reduce government programs and services. Schumer had declared that the Democrats of the Senate were faced with a “choice of Hobson”: either to vote for a “terrible” bill, or to close the government, which, according to him, would have been a worse result for the party and the country.
But the Democrats are desperate that the party resists Trump, while the administration is embarking on a series of radical and potentially illegal movements to reduce the government, expel thousands of immigrants and launch a world trade war.
“People are furious that Democrats do not have a plan to fight Trump – and supposed to” leaders “withdraw (more) and still),” said Adam Green, co -founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, in a press release, accusing Schumer of having tried to “hide” voters. “We hope that other Democratic senators will continue to meet their voters and demand that their leaders beats with the backbone. “
Democrats organized demonstrations against republican members of the Congress, expressing their fury in the face of the federal overhaul of the administration led by the so-called “Department of Effectiveness of the Government” as well as their fears on republican proposals which would probably lead to reductions in security net programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.
But this week, several democratic groups are targeting Schumer and other Democrats in the Senate who voted for the bill on spending. Some organized demonstrations outside the Brooklyn house of the minority chief while others call him to resign.
In an interview with the New York Times, Schumer dismissed questions about the question of whether the self-written institutionalist was the right leader for this moment. The New York Democrat said he knew how to win seats and compared to a qualified “conductor” to underline the various talents of his caucus. He said that he had encouraged Senator Chris Murphy, one of the net criticism of the second Trump Administration, to accelerate his appearances on the media, and the independent senator Bernie Sanders to lead a “fight against the oligarchy”.
Asked about the prospect of a main challenge, perhaps by New York MP Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as some would have encouraged to do so, Schumer dismantled, saying that 2028 was “in the long term”.
But Schumer’s decision to give in rather than fighting has shaken the militant base of his party.
After the vote last week, indivisible, one of the main groups organizing against Trump, said it was time for a new leadership in the Senate.
“This is a painful decision, the gravity we take very seriously.” But with our democracy at stake, he leaves us, the country and the Democratic party. “
The group encourages members to call their democratic senators and ask them to put Schumer to “withdraw”.
The funding struggle also revealed a deep flaw with the Democrats of the Chamber, all except one opposed the bill during a ground vote. Friday, the member of the Hakeem Congress Jeffries, the chief of the minority, refused to answer a question of whether it was time for a new leadership in the Senate.
