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In their typical fashion, Senate Democrats engaged in political theater to delay the inevitable and cause instability,
said Ted Cruz, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee
Republicans have again stood together to get the job done, this time to pass a CR that freezes spending and funds the government for the remainder of FY25. Shamefully, 99% of Democrats in Congress voted to SHUT DOWN the government—simply because they seem to hate President Trump more than they love America."
House Speaker Mike Johnson posted to X on Friday
We have a Senate majority leader who is beloved in this party, but we want somebody who's gonna stand up to this bully. Stand up to this bully. Do something. And if you shut the government down and it gets ... a little bit crazy, at least some politics is about the rationality. There's an emotional need to stop Donald Trump and Elon Musk from running over this party. And ... I think Chuck Schumer has radically misread the room."
Jones continued
We can be grumpy. We can be frustrated with each other, there is, there is a volcanic eruption of outrage at leader Schumer because we want a Mitch McConnell,
Jones said
Today the biggest split among Democrats is between those who want to stand and fight and those who want to play dead,
said Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Greg Casar in a statement after Schumer and nine other Democratic senators voted to advance the bill
When the Senate Minority Leader sells you out, the only option is to take back the party and country with grassroots activists in blue and red districts to stand up for the Constitution and our democracy,
Democratic Representative Ro Khanna said in a social media post
We've been friends for a long time. There are always going to be disagreements on issues,
Schumer said in a brief interviewAmericans voted for change under President Trump and Republican leadership after four years of chaos. The government is funded, let's get back to work.”
Ted Cruz added
I appreciate Senator Schumer, and I think he did the right thing. Really, I'm very impressed by that."
Speaking to reporters later, Trump saidDonald Trump and Elon Musk have offered the Congress a false choice between a government shutdown or a blank cheque that makes a devastating assault on the wellbeing of working families across America,
Pelosi said
That’s a question that is best addressed by the Senate.”
Asked whether Schumer had acquiesced to Trump, Jeffries repliedElon Musk, DOGE [the department of government efficiency] and Donald Trump will use the power to shut down the government to fire hundreds of thousands if not millions of workers, shut down whole departments, and shrink the government for tax cuts for billionaires,
Schumer saidThere’s a lot of concern about the failure to have a plan and execute on it,
the senator said
He’s done a great deal of damage to the party,
said Ezra Levin, co-founder of the liberal group Indivisible, which has scheduled an emergency call Saturday with its New York chapter and other local leaders to “seriously consider if the currentWe have to reckon with the fact that young people, working-class people, people of color — the backbone of the Democratic Party — are moving away from the party,
said Stevie O’Hanlon, the organization’s political directorAnytime you have a failure — and this is a failure altogether — we as a caucus owe it to Democrats across the country and our constituents to look back and see: How do we get ourselves into this situation
he saidBiden is gone. Pelosi is in the background. Schumer is the last one left from that older generation,
said one New York-based donor who is a longtime supporter of the leaderThe people who are voting for the [continuing resolution] are giving everybody else a massive amount of political protection,
the person said
I have not seen such uniting anger across the party in a long, long time,
said Charlotte Clymer, a Democratic operative associated with the moderate wing of the party who launched a petition to boycott donations to Senate Democrats until they force Schumer out as minority leaderHe has to be made an example of to enforce Democratic backbone going forward,
he said