Angry Donors and Protests: Democrats Think Chuck Schumer Has Set Them Up to ‘Lose Fast’

The Senate majority leader announced he would get out of the way of the government funding bill. Democrats are livid at the lack of resistance.

Chuck Schumer

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has done the near impossible: unite the moderate and left wings of the Democratic Party. Against him, that is.

In the hours after Schumer announced his caucus would not stand in the way of the Republican-led government funding bill — likely handing a major victory to Speaker Mike Johnson and President Donald Trump — it was hard to find any Democrat outside the Senate chamber who thought the move was a good idea. Bitter rivals over the long-term future of the Democratic Party came to the same conclusion about the current state of things.

“Seems like even the moderates hate Chuck,” a strategist from the party’s far left gleefully texted NOTUS. “Wonder what Third Way’s take is now!”