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Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-MD) criticized Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) during a town hall on Tuesday and called for new leadership within the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought it was critical to make sure that we block that bill,\u201d Ivey said of the GOP\u2019s continuing resolution to fund the government for the remaining fiscal year, largely at the same level as under President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was deeply disappointed that Senator Schumer voted with the Republicans. You know you\u2019re on bad ground when you get a\u00a0personal tweet\u00a0from\u00a0Donald Trump thanking you for your vote,\u201d Ivey continued, noting that Trump acknowledged Schumer\u2019s decision to back the spending bill.<\/p>\n
Ivey then suggested that the only good position for Democrats was not to work on behalf of their constituents and the country, but to behave strictly as an opposition party to Trump and Republicans, no matter what.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t want to be there. We don\u2019t want to be there. And it\u2019s important for us to make sure that, at this critical time, we\u2019ve got leaders that are gonna take us in the right direction. We had [House Minority Leader] Hakeem Jeffries [D-N.Y.] lead the fight against the CR to the tune of 213 to one,\u201d Ivey said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSchumer was on the other side. Hakeem met the moment Schumer did not. And so I respect Chuck Schumer. I think he\u2019s had a great long-standing career. He\u2019s done a lot of great things. But I\u2019m afraid that it may be time for the Senate Democrats to pick new leadership as we move forward,\u201d Ivey said, going on to say that his party should have moved to shut down the government despite previous predictions over years of doom and gloom if the GOP shut down the government.<\/p>\n
Schumer strongly defended his vote on several news programs this week, including on CBS Mornings, where he argued that a shutdown would have encouraged the Project 2025-inspired reduction of the federal government while simultaneously weakening the courts\u2014Democrats\u2019 primary tool for countering Trump\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n
Schumer also explained on CBS that \u201cone of the Republican senators who knows said to us, \u2018You\u2019ll be in the shutdown for six to nine months until we totally destroy the federal government.\u2019 So the shutdown was a much worse alternative.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\nSchumer on CBS claims “one of the Republican senators who knows said to us, ‘you’ll be in the shutdown for six to nine months until we totally destroy the federal government.’ So the shutdown was a much worse alternative.” pic.twitter.com\/8ERtdtlhCj<\/a><\/p>\n
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