Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s fellow Democrats in the chamber aren’t yet publicly calling for him to step aside, but in the House, calls are climbing against him after he supported the House Republicans’ continuing resolution to keep the government open.
On Tuesday, Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., when asked at a town hall Tuesday whether the New York Democrat should “retire or step down,” nodded yes, Axios reported Wednesday.
At a town hall Tuesday, Rep. Glenn Ivey, D-Md., also called on Schumer to resign as leader, and the liberal group Indivisible agreed.
House Democrats are angry over Schumer’s support of the GOP’s continuing resolution after just one Democrat in the chamber voted in favor of it.
Others refused to vote to approve it because it did not include language to constrain the Department of Government Efficiency from its cuts to agencies and programs approved by Congress.
Schumer, though, argued that a shutdown would have allowed President Donald Trump to move more quickly to downsize the federal government.