The Democratic Party was defeated on Friday, as the Democrats’ Senate was unleashed a stream of disappointment, and the anger was resolved led by the senator.Chuck ShumerWho encountered what he saw as a terrible choice:Close the governmentOr agree to the Republican Financing Bill that allows President Donald Trump to continue to reduce the federal government.
AfterShumer announcedThat he would be reluctant to support the bill, he struck the main blow of this anger, including protest in his office, calls on progressives to be reproduced in 2028 and proposing that the Democratic Party is soon looking for new leaders.
Nine other members of the Democratic Cantingent predominantly Swing-State and senators who retire, eventually joined Shumer, voting to promote the proposal of republican financing, providing decisive support to bring it to the final vote. He walked at the end of Friday with the meaning of Jeanne Shakhin from New Hampshire and Angus King Meng, who votes with Republicans in favor.
Since their losses in the election, the Democrats have been put on a flurry of Trump’s early actions, recorded from the legislative power and left the search for the plan to return the political impetus. But since Shumer allowed one of the rare moments when the party could return the leverage in Washington, the Democratic Party broke out at the time of the wrath that had been built for months.
Many in the party thought that the New York Democrat wasnot showing sufficient struggleclaiming that the government would make Trump’s shutdown and the Republicans to the negotiating table. However, for Sumer, headed by the Senate Democrats, since Trump took over in 2016, the choice eventually came down to preventing the shutdown, which he believed, would pass Trump only more power and leave his party with the guilt for interruptions in public services.
“The shutdown would allow the dug to go over,” Sumer warned on the Senate Friday, citing the efforts of the Ministry of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk.
Shumer did not vote for the final vote for the financing bill, which only needed a simple majority. However, the Democrats of the House of Representatives released the flow of angry statements and reports on social media aimed at Sumer.
The Democratic Representative Tri Carter of Louisiana shared a photo of Trump and Shumer, who was talking: “The picture costs thousands of words!”
Even in the Senate, any Democrats are unlikely to support the Sumer strategy on Friday. It was a great turn for the long -standing democratic leader, leaving him almost alone.
Emeryt Nancy Pelosy’s speaker, his long -standing ally and partner of the past, said in a statement: “Let’s be clear: for the American people is not a good option. But this false choice that some buy instead of struggle is unacceptable.”
Pelosy added that the senators should listen to women who are in appointment for Democrats, Rosa Delaura representative from Connecticut and Senator Patti Murray from Washington. They offered a 30-day stop plan insteadRepublican proposal that provides fundingBy September. The Republican bill will reduce $ 13 billion not relying at the 2024 budget level and increase $ 6 billion.
Since the deputies of the House of Representatives, who almost all voted against the bill earlier this week, completed the retreat to Northern Virginia on Friday, they also called on their Senate colleagues to demonstrate more struggle. The Democratic leadership of the House of Representatives rushed back to the Capitol to hold a press conference and urge the senators to reject the bill.
“We don’t want to close the government. But we are not afraid of the government financing exhibition,” Jeffrist said.
He also repeatedly refused to answer questions about whether he was confidence in Sumer.
Other Democrats, such as Governor Kentucky Andy Besher, who is regarded as a potential presidential candidate in 2028, and visited a democratic retreat, called for a broader movement. He mentioned the last 60th anniversary of civil rights in the agricultural state, Alabama, and claimed that the Democrats needed to find “collective courage”.
“When these people were going, there was no voice,” Besher said. – There was a collective courage of this group that changed the world. On this day, the country’s eyes were opened to what was really happening. ”
Some were ready to start marching.
“We are ready to get out of this building and at any time return to the Capitol and prevent the closure of the government,” said Texas spokesman Greg Cassar, Chairman of the Congress Progressive Caucus.
“Now the moment is the moment for the Democrats to hold the line at the booth and say that we are very firmly on the side of the working class and against the ultrasounds trying to ruin our government for ourselves,” he added.
Meanwhile, some of the most influential progressive groups of the country warned of serious political consequences for the Senate Democrats and predicted a tough reaction when Congress members return home next week.
Ezra Levin, co -founder of the Indivisible, which organized hundreds of protests across the country, said that nearly 8 of the group activists support the main problems against the “Senate Dems, which five under the GoP bill”.
He wrote on social media that the vast majority of these democratic activists plans to express their anger in the town hall or other public events next week. Moveon, another progressive group claiming that nearly 10 million members across the country predicted that his activists would also require answers from democratic officials in the coming days
“Cleaning the path for Donald Trump and Elon Musk to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid is unacceptable. In the past, Democrats fight and stop acting as usual,” said Joel Payne, Moveon press secretary.
The Democrats in the Senate also did not want to speak to protect the Sumer step. Senator Rafael Warnok, Democrat Georgia, even suggested that the party should look for new leaders in the coming years.
“I think it will come 26, 28, we will get a new leadership,” he said. Later, his office said Warnok answered the question widely.
Basically, however, the senators simply complained that they were called by the Republican Party, which found a new sense of unity at Trump. For many years, the Republicans of the House of Representatives have failed to gain voices for state funding on their own, forcing them to negotiate. This time,they passedThe bill on party lines and left Washington.
“We were stuck with two bad elections represented by the only Republican Front,” said Senator Mark Warner, Democrat Virginia.
He voted against the bill, but said about Sumer’s decision: “These are harsh and harsh calls.”
Originally this story was presented on Fortune.com
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