House Democrats have “complete meltdown” as Schumer folds on shutdown
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/14/house-democrats-angry-chuck-schumer-shutdown
House Democrats have “complete meltdown” as Schumer folds on shutdown
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/14/house-democrats-angry-chuck-schumer-shutdown
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From the article:
*House Democrats erupted into apoplexy Thursday night after Senate Minority Leader* [*Chuck Schumer*](https://www.axios.com/2025/03/13/democrats-government-shutdown-vote-schumer) *(D-N.Y.) said he would support Republicans’ stopgap government funding measure.*
***Why it matters:*** *House Democrats feel like they “walked the plank,” in the words of one member. They* [*voted almost unanimously*](https://www.axios.com/2025/03/11/house-passes-continuing-resolution-shutdown-bill) *against the measure, only to watch Senate Democrats seemingly give it the green light.*
* *”Complete meltdown. Complete and utter meltdown on all text chains,” said the member, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to offer sensitive details of members’ internal conversations.*
* *A senior House Democrat said “people are furious” and that some rank-and-file members have floated the idea of angrily marching onto the Senate floor in protest.*
* *Others are talking openly about supporting primary challenges to senators who vote for the GOP spending bill.*
***Driving the news:*** *Schumer said in a* [*floor speech*](https://www.c-span.org/clip/us-senate/sen-schumer-i-will-vote-to-keep-the-government-open/5156948) *Thursday that while the GOP measure is “very bad,” the possibility of a government shutdown “has consequences for America that are much, much worse.”*
if the republicans need a rubber stamp, let them buy one at a stationery store.
AOC will have to primary Schumer.
It’ll be an interesting race.
Schumer doesn’t give a fuck about the House. He doesn’t even give a shit about his own caucus. Was that not made evident during the BBB saga?
The House Dems, for all their many issues, are seemingly more moral than the Senate as a whole-and despite some idiocy, getting better at resisting. Hope they can get the Senate on their side tonight, ditch the remaining rot, and begin to fight back in full.
The time to play nice is over.
Primaries. A load of them.
LOL this party is such a joke
They don’t care about the voters, they only care about their donors
End Citizens United
Dems playing it safe again for the loss. Weak pieces of $hit!
Let’s get AOC to primary him.
I’m fairly young, mid thirties, but I can’t remember a single time in my lifetime watching a political party self destruct like this.
It’s really hard to identify a single point in time that the wheels came off, but I’m probably going with the Biden/Trump debate. There seems to be not a single good decision made amongst them since they sent Biden on that stage.
Cartoonish levels of headless chicken running amok.
Lets call it what it really is.
Chuck Schumer, the “leader” of Senate Democrats, had his first real opportunity to stand up to amoral and illegal violations of the Constitution, and he chose to fucking kneel. I have lost what little respect I had left for him.
***ANY*** Senator that votes in favor of this, regardless of party, deserves to be primaried by someone who’s loyal to *the Constitution*.
Fucking coward
Schumer must be a fantastic poker player.
*”I trust we can amicably resolve this hand, so I’m going to lay down my cards. You can see I have a two, a four, a five, a six, a seven, a nine and one of these lovely Jack fellows, all of varying suits. As a token of good faith negotiations, I’m sliding all of my chips to the middle of the table…”*
If this isn’t the point in time where the Dem Party recalibrates and goes gloves off then I don’t know what will.
The Democrats need to adopt an economic populist position. Run candidates supporting that position. Tax the people and corporations with billions, legislate to overturn citizens united. I’m not interested in the party’s leaders who tow the line. I appreciate Sanders, Buttigieg, AOC, and now Waltz going against the grain and speaking the people. Yes go on tour. Warren as always, tho I’d like to see more from her. Schumer can, as it were, get fucked.
Folks, if there is any proof WE have to get shit figured out and WE need to fix things on our own it’s today.
I’m not saying all Democrats are bad or idiots like Schumer. I’m not saying we can’t salvage this party in some way. But it is clear the people we elected currently (or at least a majority of them) WILL NOT come to save the day.
It is so obvious and yet we sit here, typing away at our computers, expecting someone else to do the hard work. (Yes, I know the irony in typing that here.)
I just find it fascinating that for 10 years we really thought the GOP itself was going to fracture itself because of the MAGA takeover. Instead, they are stronger than ever and now the Democrats appear to have completely split apart at the seams based on different ideals.
These ancient fossils need to step the fuck down. This isn’t the time for “Business as usual”, need some younger blood that haven’t sold away their spine a generation ago.
Why does Schumer have any leadership position at all? He’s dogshit.
This might be the wake-up calls some Dems need to realize “yeah, we need to change this.” AOC is 100% gonna primary against Schumer.
Is there another party for me to join? All of the old guard “leaders”. need to resign today.
This is straight up insanity. No one in their right mind can vote for this. Let them shut it down. Everything is already up in flames.
Normal is out the window.
I hope I dont see any more “Democrats have the minority! They can’t do anything! 🙁 ” sentiment like what was running rampant the past several weeks. That’s just anger inducing now.
I am a retired, disabled veteran. I am also using the GI Bill to go to school.
I was worried about a shutdown because of school and retirement, but I thought a shutdown was the right call. We have to stop deferring to these people who are destroying the country.
Approving the CR is the wrong call. It will embolden these criminals even further.
I am enraged.
Every time you appease Trump the price of stopping him next time goes up.
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