Senate Republicans on Thursday defeated a Democratic amendment that would have permanently barred the Justice Department from establishing its proposed $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund, despite a handful of GOP senators from competitive states breaking ranks to support the measure.
The amendment, sponsored by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5910245-senate-gop-amendment-anti-weaponization-fund/">failed</a> in a 49-50 vote after nearly three hours of procedural wrangling on the Senate floor. All Democrats voted in favor, while Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), and Jon Husted (R-OH) joined them. 
It would have permanently prohibited any future administration from using the federal Judgment Fund to establish the Anti-Weaponization Fund. 
The vote highlighted growing political tensions surrounding the fund, which Democrats have repeatedly characterized as a &#8220;MAGA slush fund&#8221; and which some Republicans have privately worried could become a liability in the months leading up to the midterm elections.
The three GOP senators who voted with Democrats are all facing competitive re-election campaigns this November. Collins is expected to face one of the toughest races of her career in Maine, while Sullivan and Husted are also preparing for competitive contests in states Democrats hope to contest aggressively.
Democrats argued that verbal assurances from the Trump administration that the fund was dead were insufficient.
&#8220;It’s heinous and it won&#8217;t die until we permanently ban it by law,&#8221; Schumer said on the Senate floor ahead of the vote.
The amendment came despite repeated statements from Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche that the Justice Department has abandoned plans to move forward with the fund. 
&#8220;We are not moving forward with the fund. Period,&#8221; Blanche <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/todd-blanche-doj-anti-weaponization-fund-rcna348154">told lawmakers</a> during congressional testimony this week. 
The Anti-Weaponization Fund was initially proposed in May as a mechanism to compensate Americans who believe they were improperly targeted by government agencies. Supporters argued that victims of politically motivated prosecutions, including some January 6 defendants, pro-life activists, and others who believed they had been unfairly targeted by the federal government, should have an avenue for restitution.
The proposal quickly drew backlash from both Democrats and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-the-gop-revolted-against-trumps-anti-weaponization-fund" target="_blank" rel="noopener">several Senate Republicans</a>, who expressed concerns about potential beneficiaries and the program&#8217;s projected cost.
Thursday&#8217;s vote also exposed divisions within the Republican conference. Several senators who opposed Schumer&#8217;s amendment nonetheless pushed for alternative language that would codify Blanche&#8217;s pledge not to pursue the fund.
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) reportedly threatened to support Schumer&#8217;s amendment unless Republican leadership allowed consideration of a separate proposal prohibiting the fund. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) similarly argued that formally eliminating the proposal would spare vulnerable Republicans from having to defend it on the campaign trail.
&#8220;Why not use this moment to codify that?&#8221; Tillis <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/senate-republicans-grapple-with-trumps-anti-weaponization-fund-ice-funding-vote-2026-06-04/">told reporters</a>. &#8220;Otherwise, you&#8217;re exposing every one of our members who are in an election cycle to having to deal with this between today and Election Day.&#8221;
Ultimately, however, most Republicans voted against Schumer&#8217;s amendment, helping preserve the underlying $70 billion reconciliation package, which focuses primarily on immigration enforcement and border security.
The fight over the Anti-Weaponization Fund has become one of several politically charged issues Democrats hope to use to divide Republicans ahead of November. With control of both chambers of Congress at stake, Democrats have sought to force difficult votes on issues ranging from government spending and tariffs to immigration enforcement and Trump&#8217;s legal battles.
For Republicans, the challenge is maintaining unity while defending a narrow Senate majority in what is expected to be a difficult midterm environment. Thursday&#8217;s vote demonstrated that while some vulnerable GOP incumbents are willing to distance themselves from controversial Trump administration proposals, Republican leadership remains determined to avoid handing Democrats procedural victories that could derail the party&#8217;s broader legislative agenda.
And despite Democratic efforts to permanently kill the proposal, the amendment&#8217;s failure means Republicans avoided a headline-grabbing rebuke of the administration — even as the administration itself insists the fund is already dead.

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Schumer Forces Senate Vote On Anti-Weaponization Fund

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President Donald Trump on Tuesday essentially offered Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s political eulogy, saying he’s “mentally gone” and has been “beat up by young radical lunatics.”
When asked if the Democratic Party was now more New York Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s party than Schumer’s or House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’, Trump answered, “Probably is. Maybe he’ll run for president in four years; you’ll have a communist president. That would be interesting.”
“I don’t see it happening,” he continued. “I’ve always said, ‘You will never see — and I’ve always talked to you about socialism — you will never see a socialist so and so — and I was right. I say it in speeches: ‘We will not have socialism in our country,’ and I was right.”
“He’s a communist, and he’s gonna be, maybe the mayor of New York &#8230; I would say he would be the leader of the party,” Trump continued.
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Turning to Schumer, he said, “It’s not Schumer. Schumer’s shot, he’s shot. This poor guy. I feel sorry for him. I’ve known him for a long time, but he’s — I think he’s mentally gone. He’s been beat up by young radical lunatics. And I think that Chuck Schumer is — he’s gonzo. I really do. I think he’s probably not going to run. It shows that he’s losing in every poll. Now, this is hard. You know, he wants to meet with me. Sort of hard to be with the guy after I make a statement like that, but I’m just giving you the facts. I think Chuck is probably finished.”
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Trump is far from the only person contending that Schumer has capitulated to the far-Left wing of his party: Last week, Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), the Senate Majority Whip, bluntly stated that Schumer was beholden to the radicals in his party, <a href="https://www.barrasso.senate.gov/barrasso-the-radicals-hold-the-reins-of-todays-democrat-party/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">saying</a> on the Senate floor:
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Here’s a headline from Politico: “Chuck Schumer’s critics are satisfied – for now.” The article goes on to quote the head of a far-left activist group called Indivisible. This group is organizing Saturday’s radical rally. The leader of this far-left group says of the Minority Leader, “He hasn’t surrendered yet. I call that progress, and we’re cheering him on now.” Seven months ago, that same person had a very different message for the Minority Leader. That same person said, “Senator Schumer should step aside as leader. Every Democrat in the Senate should call for him to do so.” So what changed? Well, Senator Schumer started toeing the line of the far-left group. He shut down the government in spite of the fact that 13 times when Joe Biden was president he voted for a clean continuing resolution to keep the government open. What changed? Well, the Minority Leader is now a puppet of the radical, extreme, dangerous, scary wing of his party.
He huddled with far-left activist groups for months before the shutdown. They orchestrated the Schumer Shutdown together. They organized a war room. They’re calling the tune. Senator Schumer even gloated to Punchbowl News: “We thought about this long in advance.” This is a premeditated, political game for Senator Schumer and the Democrats.
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Schumer’s Political Obituary? Trump Says ‘He’s Mentally Gone…He’s Gonzo’

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Zohran Mamdani

WASHINGTON—Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has taken a lot of flak for his approach to the government shutdown, particularly a video the New York Democrat released on Monday.
“We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system,” Schumer said in the highly-produced video. &#8220;No f***ing way.&#8221;
The rest of the video is less profane, but no less controversial. Schumer goes on to reiterate the Democrats’ main argument for keeping the government shut down: Obamacare’s expanded tax credits would “expire” unless Congress passes the Democrats’ funding bill.
That turned out to be more controversial than the senator’s choice deployment of an f-bomb.
“Once again, Chuck Schumer is lying and hopes you just take his word for it,” Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) wrote in a reply to Schumer’s post. “The expiration date of these tax credits was set in the so-called Inflation Reduction Act, which Democrats passed without a single Republican vote. The sensible forms Republicans made to sustain the program did not cut Medicaid, and he knows this.”
“Looking for someone to blame for the health care crisis Americans are facing? Look in the mirror,” the Republican continued.
Schumer’s fellow New Yorker, Republican Rep. Mike Lawler, called the minority leader the “biggest schmuck in Washington.”
“50 years in elected office! Go the f**k home. It’s time,” he posted. “Open the government and get back to work. And if the ACA is working so well, why do we need COVID subsidies to make it affordable? Maybe it’s time to fix the system.”
Brian Blase, a former White House policy official and president of the Paragon Health Institute, whose scholars have heavily scrutinized <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/yes-democrats-want-to-give-illegals-free-healthcare-here-are-the-facts?author=Tim+Rice&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Yes%2C+Democrats+Want+To+Give+Illegals+Free+Healthcare.+Here+Are+The+Facts." target="_blank" rel="noopener">the system in question</a>, says the tax credits should be allowed to expire.
“Obamacare is the reason for high premiums in the individual market and why they are increasing. Not a single Republican voted for the COVID-era Obamacare subsidy add-ons that Democrats set to expire after 2025,” Blase told The Daily Wire. “Any Democrats are misleading the public and claiming that all the Obamacare subsidies are expiring. That is not true. The original subsidies are permanent and cover more than 80 percent of the premium for the typical enrollee.”
“The original subsidies have gotten more generous over time. In 2014, they covered about 68 percent of the typical enrollees’ premiums. Next year, after the COVID credits expire, they will cover more than 80 percent,” Blase continued.
While Democrats are largely united behind Schumer’s call for the extension of the Obamacare tax credits, some are unhappy with the party’s approach to the shutdown.
“It’s a sad day for our nation. Our government shuts down at midnight. I voted AYE to extend ACA tax credits because I support them—but I won’t vote for the chaos of shuttering our government,” Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) wrote on September 30, just before the government shut down. “My vote was [for] our country over my party.”
Schumer’s office did not respond to a request for comment.

US Government Shutdown Looms With Trump, Democrats At Odds

Republicans Slam Schumer For Profane Video On Government Shutdown

Government Shutdown

Healthcare

As a government shutdown looms in the very near future, the topic at the forefront of discussions across the Sunday morning political talk shows was funding the government: who is holding the most leverage, who — if anyone — is willing to budge, and what will happen if they can&#8217;t come to an agreement?
For those who don&#8217;t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week&#8217;s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.
After previously canceling a meeting with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) — and declaring their demands for a potential deal to be &#8220;ridiculous,&#8221; Trump has reportedly agreed to a rescheduled meeting to discuss plans to avoid a shutdown. Republicans and Democrats alike addressed what such a deal might look like — and thus far, a consensus it is not.
Jeffries, for example, told ABC News host Martha Raddatz on &#8220;This Week&#8221; that he was willing to sit down with anyone who was interested in finding a path forward to funding the government.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve made clear that we&#8217;re ready, willing, and able to sit down with anyone at any time and at any place in order to make sure that we can actually fund the government,&#8221; he said.
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“We&#8217;ve made clear that we&#8217;re ready, willing, and able to sit down with anyone at any time and at any place in order to make sure that we can actually fund the government,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries tells <a href="https://twitter.com/MarthaRaddatz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MarthaRaddatz</a>. <a href="https://t.co/CyT5lxgzMc">https://t.co/CyT5lxgzMc</a> <a href="https://t.co/tWvRtrkObC">pic.twitter.com/tWvRtrkObC</a>
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But in the same interview, he badmouthed the people he claimed to be ready to work with, saying they&#8217;d &#8220;behaved not as a separate and co-equal branch of government and a check and balance on an out-of-control executive branch, but as a consistent rubber stamp for Donald Trump&#8217;s extreme agenda.&#8221;
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Republicans have “behaved not as a separate and co-equal branch of government and a check and balance on an out-of-control executive branch, but as a consistent rubber stamp for Donald Trump&#8217;s extreme agenda,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says. <a href="https://t.co/OKY7B0xDem">https://t.co/OKY7B0xDem</a> <a href="https://t.co/FrrprqmxbC">pic.twitter.com/FrrprqmxbC</a>
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And then he flipped back, saying once again that he wanted to work with the Republicans he&#8217;d just referred to as &#8220;rubber stamps&#8221; for an &#8220;extreme agenda.&#8221;
&#8220;We want to find a bipartisan path forward and reach a spending agreement with our Republican colleagues that actually meets the needs of the American people, but that also addresses the Republican health care crisis,&#8221; he said.
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“We want to find a bipartisan path forward and reach a spending agreement with our Republican colleagues that actually meets the needs of the American people, but that also addresses the Republican health care crisis,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries says. <a href="https://t.co/OKY7B0xDem">https://t.co/OKY7B0xDem</a> <a href="https://t.co/IOdlC4TrET">pic.twitter.com/IOdlC4TrET</a>
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House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) made it clear that he believed Republicans — who hold a slim majority — had the advantage and did not plan to make unnecessary concessions.
&#8220;I’m glad that President Trump is showing leadership in meeting with all leaders … But ultimately, those Democrats have to make a decision,&#8221; he told Raddatz, adding that he still believed there was time for them to reach a deal.
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House Majority Leader Steve Scalise says “there’s still time” to fund the government and avoid a shutdown.
“I’m glad that President Trump is showing leadership in meeting with all leaders … But ultimately, those Democrats have to make a decision.” <a href="https://t.co/VVmgI0y1x3">https://t.co/VVmgI0y1x3</a> <a href="https://t.co/0hmyU6JT1Y">pic.twitter.com/0hmyU6JT1Y</a>
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1972314405963510038?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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On CBS, &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221; opened with a statement from President Trump — who said that unless Democrats are willing to move on several key issues, the government is likely to shut down.
&#8220;I just don’t know how we are going to solve this issue,&#8221; he said.
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NEW THIS MORNING: President Trump tells <a href="https://twitter.com/costareports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@costareports</a> the government is likely to shut down this week unless top Democrats address his concerns on immigration and health care, and says both parties are now at a stalemate.
“I just don’t know how we are going to solve this issue,”… <a href="https://t.co/VdLXd7Qxl0">pic.twitter.com/VdLXd7Qxl0</a>
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1972313362793943395?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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On NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press,&#8221; Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) made it clear that Republicans did not plan to give an inch — and that Democrats were just going to have to come around.
&#8220;The choice remains the same: Democrats can either vote for a clean, short-term, nonpartisan CR that prioritizes the American people, or they can choose a completely avoidable shutdown that prioritizes politics above all else,&#8221; he said.
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The choice remains the same: Democrats can either vote for a clean, short-term, nonpartisan CR that prioritizes the American people, or they can choose a completely avoidable shutdown that prioritizes politics above all else. <a href="https://t.co/ESOndRHAO9">pic.twitter.com/ESOndRHAO9</a>
— Leader John Thune (@LeaderJohnThune) <a href="https://twitter.com/LeaderJohnThune/status/1972326146139467887?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Schumer, who has apparently learned his lesson after he worked with Republicans to avert the last potential government shutdown, also appeared on the NBC Sunday morning show and insisted that Republicans were &#8220;feeling the heat&#8221; and would soon give in to Democrats&#8217; demands.
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Republican Senators, Representatives, and even Donald Trump are feeling the heat to do something about the horrible health care crisis they’ve created. <a href="https://t.co/20SG3sKiX1">pic.twitter.com/20SG3sKiX1</a>
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1972349160717205796?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) joined host Jake Tapper on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; where he called on members of his party to &#8220;hold the line.&#8221;
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Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen calls on his party to “hold the line” in government funding fight. <a href="https://t.co/0nn9wg5v7w">pic.twitter.com/0nn9wg5v7w</a>
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Van Hollen, who made a name for himself when he left his own constituents twisting in the wind while he flew to El Salvador to advocate for a deported MS-13 gang member, then snarked at President Trump and suggested he&#8217;d previously refused to meet with congressional leaders because he was too busy golfing.
&#8220;It&#8217;s good to see the president finally get off the golf course and decide to talk,&#8221; he said.
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Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen on Trump’s meeting with Democratic leaders ahead of shutdown deadline: “It&#8217;s good to see the president finally get off the golf course and decide to talk.” <a href="https://t.co/gjjckTkaZa">pic.twitter.com/gjjckTkaZa</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1972311038612643938?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Trump explained days earlier that he&#8217;d <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/do-the-right-thing-trump-axes-meeting-with-radical-dems-calls-for-realistic-terms">called off a planned meeting</a> because the demands put forth by the Democrats at the time had been unrealistic.

Spin Cycle: Will They Or Won’t They (Shut Everything Down)?

Spin Cycle: Will They Or Won't They (Shut Everything Down)?

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The Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget, led by Director Russ Vought, has ordered federal agencies to prepare permanent reduction-in-force (RIF) plans — not just temporary furloughs — in case of a government shutdown.
According to a memo obtained by <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/24/white-house-firings-shutdown-00579909">POLITICO</a>, agencies must pinpoint unfunded programs that fall outside President Donald Trump’s priorities and draft termination plans.
The move marks a major escalation — shifting from a temporary pause in operations to permanent staff cuts targeting federal programs that Democrats have long protected but critics call bloated and outdated. Unsurprisingly, it has sent Senate Democrats into a tailspin.
The same Democrats who once warned that government shutdowns hurt veterans, families, the military, and children are now eagerly dragging the nation to the brink of one — all to force through a laundry list of leftist priorities.
The reason the federal government is on the verge of a shutdown is that Democrats are refusing to fund the government unless their radical demands are met. Their wish list? Roughly $1.5 trillion in new spending, <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/09/democrats-threaten-a-shutdown-over-radical-left-insanity/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">according</a> to the White House, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/white-house-to-pursue-mass-firingsif-government-shuts-down-ea61ae89?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAiNgckPBaAcNPpoe2IwKzI3qrcnizJPYg3k_o3TEXybEQUX3V875-Xz8fWKJHk%3D&amp;gaa_ts=68d51374&amp;gaa_sig=6Ks9p1XwUzAFR6Z5OxCQ3JBwTN6wrv3STKMxbpagWkNu_UrSn3fhXhHw2gqfYm7SPcJ7mEWNdPt_3rRoGzetrg%3D%3D">including</a>:
<blockquote>An extension of expiring Obamacare subsidies. A reversal of hundreds of billions in Medicaid reforms passed under the GOP’s tax-and-spending overhaul. The release of federal funds frozen by the Trump White House.</blockquote>
Senate Democrats are holding basic government operations hostage over partisan pet projects — the very behavior they used to rail against. “The House passed a stopgap spending measure to float federal operations through Nov. 21, but Democrats in the Senate have refused to advance it,” POLITICO noted.
Examples of Senate Democrats’ hypocrisy: In 2023, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) <a href="https://www.murphy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/murphy-statement-on-vote-to-avert-government-shutdown">wrote</a>, “There is a time and a place to debate health care, just like there is a time and place to debate energy policy and immigration and education—but not when the funding of the federal government, and all the lives that are impacted by it, hang in the balance.” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1900255771046072571">declared</a> in 2013 that threatening a shutdown was “the last resort for those who can’t win their fights through elections.”
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has been particularly shameless. In 2024, he <a href="https://www.democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/dear_colleague_-_090824.pdf">warned</a> that a shutdown would be devastating. This month, he dismissed the Trump administration’s firings as “intimidation,” suggesting the courts would reverse them, as he added, “These unnecessary firings will either be overturned in court or the administration will end up hiring the workers back.”
One exception for Senate Democrats has been Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), who <a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/09/22/2025/why-trump-welcomes-this-government-shutdown-fight">admitted</a> that Democrats were walking into a “honey trap,” making healthcare funding a “red line” that boxed them in politically. Meanwhile, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) said of Trump, “He’s recognizing the Democrats really don’t have enough leverage here to convince the American people that we should shut the government down.”
As Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/09/24/opinion/hypocrite-democrats-drive-us-off-the-government-shutdown-cliff/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">put it</a>: “For years, Democrats have thundered from every podium, press conference and Sunday show that any government shutdown is reckless, destructive and indefensible. Whenever Congress hits a budget impasse over federal funding, Democrats have decried it as a ‘hostage situation.’ They have said shutdowns hurt families, seniors, farmers, veterans and small businesses. They have demanded compromise. Now? Those same Democrats are suddenly just fine with plunging the American people into a shutdown — because it suits their political agenda.”

U.S. Congress Wrangles With Agreement To Solve Government Shutdown

Trump Admin Plans Federal Job Cuts As Dems Threaten Shutdown Over $1.5 Trillion Leftist Wish List

Hypocrisy

President Donald Trump slammed Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Tuesday after the Senate minority leader tried to blame Trump for the Texas floods.
&#8220;I saw a Palestinian senator, his name is Schumer, he&#8217;s a great Palestinian,&#8221; Trump said in a White House cabinet meeting. &#8220;He&#8217;s become a Palestinian. He&#8217;s abandoned the Jews. But I saw him say, &#8216;It&#8217;s Trump&#8217;s fault. Yeah, yeah, that&#8217;s right, it&#8217;s Trump&#8217;s fault.'&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> slams <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSchumer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenSchumer</a> for blaming him for the horrific Texas flooding: &quot;I actually saw that stupid guy try to blame it on me&#8230; but his career is limited because I hear AOC is going to beat him.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/fFStWivf0J">pic.twitter.com/fFStWivf0J</a>
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Trump compared Schumer&#8217;s remarks to Jon Lovitz&#8217;s Saturday Night Live character Tommy Flanagan, the pathological liar.
&#8220;I actually saw that stupid guy try to blame it on me,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;And I said, &#8216;Man, that&#8217;s a tough one to take.&#8217; But his career is limited, because I hear AOC is going to beat him, and she&#8217;s no bargain either, by the way.&#8221;
Schumer and other high-profile Democrats have suggested Trump&#8217;s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) might have exacerbated the crisis by reducing staff and funding from federal weather agencies.
In a letter, Schumer <a href="https://x.com/RossOKeefe2/status/1942180517396336816/photo/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> for an investigation into the National Weather Service on Monday to determine if staffing shortages &#8220;contributed to the massive loss of life and property.&#8221; He cited a New York Times report that said certain Texas forecasting and coordination positions were vacant.
&#8220;NYT further reports that the vacancy rate at many NWS offices nationwide has roughly doubled since President Trump returned to office — due in part to a wave of early retirements encouraged by the administration and a freeze on hiring,&#8221; Schumer&#8217;s letter said.
However, meteorologists have stated that cuts by the federal government did not impact flood warnings or responses, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/theres-no-evidence-to-suggest-doge-cuts-caused-texas-flood-devastation-meteorologists-say">reported</a>.
“There is little evidence that any of the recent cuts to NOAA/NWS negatively impacted services for this event, regardless of what may be being said on social media,” Alan Gerard, a former director of the Analysis and Understanding Branch in the National Severe Storms Laboratory at NOAA, <a href="https://balancedweather.substack.com/p/balancedwx-special-tragic-flash-flooding" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said.</a>
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt also <a href="https://x.com/RealAmVoice/status/1942274920966414721">criticized</a> Schumer and &#8220;members of the media&#8221; for blaming Trump for the floods.
&#8220;Blaming President Trump for these floods is a depraved lie, and it serves no purpose during this time of national mourning,&#8221; Leavitt said.
More than 100 people have died in the Texas flash floods, including 28 children.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Tuesday blasted Democrats who accused President Donald Trump of acting unconstitutionally after ordering strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, bluntly calling them out for their hypocrisy.
“Presidents Ford, Carter, and Reagan &#8230; engaged in several military actions without congressional assent. &#8230; President Clinton followed with interventions in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, the Middle East, and, most significantly, Kosovo, none of which were authorized by Congress. While President George W. Bush sought and received approval of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, President Obama’s wars in Libya and Syria went ahead in violation of the War Powers Resolution’s time limits,” National Review <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/06/trumps-strike-on-iran-was-constitutional/">noted</a>.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) both accused Trump of acting unconstitutionally; Jeffries said Trump “misled the country about his intentions, failed to seek congressional authorization for the use of military force and risks American entanglement in a potentially disastrous war in the Middle East.” Schumer barked, “No president should be allowed to unilaterally march this nation into something as consequential as war with erratic threats and no strategy,” calling for legislators to support war powers legislation to block further military action against Iran, Jewish Insider <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2025/06/house-minority-leader-jeffries-criticizes-trump-for-striking-iranian-nuclear-facilities/">reported</a>.
“A lot of your Democratic colleagues and leadership are saying they didn’t get a call from the president that this was happening,” Fox &amp; Friends co-host Lawrence Jones stated. “Karoline Leavitt said that’s not true, they reached out to them. Apparently, Chuck Schumer answered the phone but Hakeem Jeffries didn’t. What can you tell us about that?”
“I’ve spoken to Hakeem about this; he’s my counterpart in the House, the Democratic leader, and he wasn’t available when they called, and that’s just the way these things go,” Johnson replied. “It is ridiculous for anyone to assert that the Commander-In-Chief, using his Article II power in the Constitution, should have to consult all the members of Congress or even all the leadership in Congress every time he has to make a decisive, quick action. I mean, that would not be feasible. So the idea that they’re saying that what he’s done is somehow inappropriate or unconstitutional is nonsense. None of them ever complained when Barack Obama and Joe Biden used the same authority to drop bombs all over the Middle East, all over the world. It’s entirely inconsistent with their previous actions, and I think we call them on that hypocrisy.”
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On Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said that he would slow the process of confirming political nominees for the Department of Justice (DOJ) until more clarity is given on President Donald Trump&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-defends-400-million-flying-palace-offered-as-gift-from-qatar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plan</a> to receive a roughly $400 million luxury aircraft known as the &#8220;Flying Palace&#8221; from Qatar.
The move comes after sources told <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-administration-poised-accept-palace-sky-gift-trump/story?id=121680511" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC News</a> that Attorney General Pam Bondi provided a legal memo to White House lawyer David Warrington and they determined it was &#8220;legally permissible&#8221; for the donation of the Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet to be conditioned on transferring ownership to the Trump presidential library foundation shortly before the end of the president&#8217;s term.
&#8220;This is not just naked corruption, it is also a grave national security threat,&#8221; Schumer said in a Senate floor speech. &#8220;So, in light of the deeply troubling news of a possible Qatari-funded Air Force One, and the reports that the attorney general personally signed off on this clearly unethical deal, I am announcing a hold on all DOJ political nominees until we get more answers.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/SenSchumer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenSchumer</a>: &#8220;In light of the deeply troubling news of a possible Qatari-funded Air Force One and the reports that the Attorney General personally signed off on this clearly unethical deal I am announcing a hold on all DOJ political nominees until we get more answers.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/0TFPTWnxJM">pic.twitter.com/0TFPTWnxJM</a>
— CSPAN (@cspan) <a href="https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1922301849857561063?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Schumer listed a number of questions focused on security risks and seeking clarity on whether taxpayers would be on the hook for the plane.
The top Democrat said the DOJ’s Foreign Agents Registration Act Unit needs to “disclose all activities by Qatari foreign agents inside the US that could benefit President Trump or the Trump Organization.&#8221; He also declared that Bondi &#8220;must testify before both the House and the Senate to explain why gifting Donald Trump a private jet does not violate the Emoluments Clause — which requires congressional approval — or any ethics law.&#8221;
A hold requires Senate majority leadership to schedule a floor vote for a nominee, bypassing the faster unanimous consent process that would allow the upper chamber to confirm the president&#8217;s picks in batches. Democrats have employed the hold strategy and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/schumer-intervenes-block-trumps-us-attorney-nominees" target="_blank" rel="noopener">other</a> tactics to stymie other Trump nominees.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngpt6czKdiw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signaled</a> on Monday that Republicans would move forward with Trump&#8217;s picks, adding that he hoped Democrats would stop their &#8220;pointless obstruction&#8221; because allowing the upper chamber to confirm nominees would allow lawmakers more room to legislate and spend more time in their states. &#8220;But if we have to do this the hard way, we will,&#8221; Thune said. &#8220;We’re going to get the president’s team in place.&#8221;
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It’s pretty clear that obstructing, not legislating, is Democrats’ priority right now.
Since we’re not able to consider the GENIUS Act this week, thanks to Democrats, we’re going to turn to nominations – another area where they have made obstruction the name of the game. <a href="https://t.co/n05UyFZdbf">pic.twitter.com/n05UyFZdbf</a>
— Leader John Thune (@LeaderJohnThune) <a href="https://twitter.com/LeaderJohnThune/status/1922017202061918510?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Qatar is one of the wealthiest nations in the world, and it spends massive sums of money to gain influence in the United States. It also uses its riches to bankroll the terrorist group Hamas and the Middle Eastern news powerhouse Al Jazeera. The oil-rich government frequently invites politicians on state-funded junkets to the Middle East, where they are treated to all the luxuries that Qatar has to offer.
Amid a torrent of criticism, including many who generally support Trump, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-05-11/trump-set-to-accept-luxury-747-from-qatar-to-use-as-air-force-one-abc-news-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, &#8220;Any gift given by a foreign government is always accepted in full compliance with all applicable laws. President Trump’s administration is committed to full transparency.&#8221;
Trump, who is expected to visit Qatar this week during a swing through the Middle East, also dismissed the concerns in a <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114492082555622686" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> on Truth Social.
&#8220;So the fact that the Defense Department is getting a GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE, of a 747 aircraft to replace the 40 year old Air Force One, temporarily, in a very public and transparent transaction, so bothers the Crooked Democrats that they insist we pay, TOP DOLLAR, for the plane. Anybody can do that! The Dems are World Class Losers!!! MAGA,&#8221; Trump said.

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Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) attempted to lay a trap for one of the witnesses at a hearing earlier this week and nabbed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) by mistake.
During the Senate Judiciary Committee&#8217;s hearing titled, &#8220;Rule by District Judges II: Exploring Legislative Solutions to the Bipartisan Problem of Universal Injunctions,&#8221; Klobuchar raised the question of publicly attacking judges on social media because they issue an unfavorable ruling.
Clearly jabbing at Trump and his administration — as well as Republican lawmakers who have moved to impeach the judges issuing blanket nationwide injunctions from their perches in district courts — Klobuchar directed the question to attorney Jesse Panuccio, who previously served as the Acting Associate Attorney General of the United States.
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&#8220;Not in a partisan way, just normal, as a partner in a law firm, would you ever — have you ever taken to social media to personally attack a judge who ruled against you? That&#8217;s all my question is,&#8221; Klobuchar said.
&#8220;Senator, thanks for the question,&#8221; Panuccio replied. &#8220;I think that attacking judges personally, and not their reasoning, well, let me just give you a quote: &#8216;I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price —'&#8221;
Klobuchar attempted to interrupt and regain control of the situation as soon as she realized where he was going, but Panuccio kept going: &#8220;&#8216;— you won&#8217;t know what hit you if you go forward with those awful decisions.&#8217; That was something that Senator Schumer said, and I thought it was awful, and it unleashed a wave of violent threats against Supreme Court Justices. I do think that&#8217;s problematic, that kind of language.&#8221;
&#8220;Of course it is,&#8221; Klobuchar replied, shrugging off Panuccio&#8217;s statement. &#8220;I have no doubt the language is a problem on the left or right.&#8221;
During that same hearing, Panuccio advised the committee to find a way to stop judges from overreaching, or lawmakers on both sides of the aisle could continue the pattern of judge-shopping in favorable districts to tie the hands of the executive branch.
&#8220;I think the incentive for forum shopping is that you think you can get a judge who can be a ruler for the whole nation. So, fix the problem of judges overreaching,&#8221; he explained.
Panuccio also raised the topic in mid-March in an X post, saying: &#8220;Rule by district judges repeatedly overreaching to impose relief beyond parties to a case is not &#8216;rule of law.&#8217; Congress should eliminate the nonparty injunction &amp; make SCOTUS jurisdiction *mandatory* for any injunction certified as an emergency by DOJ.&#8221;
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Rule by district judges repeatedly overreaching to impose relief beyond parties to a case is not “rule of law.” Congress should eliminate the nonparty injunction &amp; make SCOTUS jurisdiction *mandatory* for any injunction certified as an emergency by DOJ.
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Amy Klobuchar Lays A Trap For Witness On ‘Attacking’ Judges, Nabs Chuck Schumer By Mistake

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Democrats in Congress are starting to openly talk about Senate Minority Leader <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chuck-schumer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chuck Schumer</a> (D-NY) stepping aside from his top perch in the upper chamber.
The New York Democrat is facing blowback after he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-clears-key-hurdle-to-avert-shutdown-after-schumer-surrenders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">refused</a> to vote in favor of blocking a Republican-backed stopgap bill to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-officially-sends-funding-bill-to-trumps-desk-after-dems-cave" target="_blank" rel="noopener">avert</a> a partial government shutdown last week and provide funds to various federal agencies through September 30.
&#8220;It may be time for the Senate Democrats to pick new leadership,&#8221; Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-MD) <a href="https://x.com/HowardMortman/status/1902357548855869682" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during a town hall on Tuesday.
During a different event, Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL) nodded and said &#8220;yes&#8221; when asked whether Schumer should &#8220;retire or step down,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/03/19/chuck-schumer-house-democrat-calls-step-down" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Axios</a>.
They join liberal groups that had already begun to push for Schumer to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/15/dem-group-calls-schumer-step-down-minority-leader-spending-bill-vote-00232194" target="_blank" rel="noopener">step down</a> as Senate minority leader in response to his decision not to stymie the Republican funding patch.
Schumer warned that a shutdown would empower President Donald Trump to keep cutting programs as part of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) effort led by Elon Musk.
But not everyone bought Schumer&#8217;s argument: some Democrats have chided the Senate minority leader over the view that he abdicated to Republicans, but have not gone quite so far as to call for his ouster.
&#8220;I myself don’t give away anything for nothing, and I think that&#8217;s what happened the other day,&#8221; former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) <a href="https://x.com/EmmaVigeland/status/1902154540775821319" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during an event on Tuesday.
Still, both Pelosi and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) <a href="https://x.com/mkraju/status/1902020041144521045" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> that they <a href="https://x.com/ChadPergram/status/1902107816908963997" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have</a> confidence in Schumer, although the latter initially <a href="https://x.com/greg_price11/status/1900607500472275423" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hesitated</a> to do so.
Eight other Democrats and one independent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-clears-key-hurdle-to-avert-shutdown-after-schumer-surrenders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banded</a> with Schumer in voting to overcome the filibuster threshold on the Republican continuing resolution. Democrats did get votes on some <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-officially-sends-funding-bill-to-trumps-desk-after-dems-cave" target="_blank" rel="noopener">amendments</a> that were ultimately rejected.
Joining ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; on Tuesday, Schumer took a defiant stance when co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin asked whether it might be time for him to step aside as President Joe Biden did in the 2024 election.
&#8220;I should be the leader,&#8221; Schumer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-think-you-caved-schumer-gets-an-absolute-grilling-on-the-view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a>, adding that he is &#8220;known&#8221; to be good with elections and has &#8220;a lot of talent&#8221; in orchestrating messaging strategies.

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) ridiculed Americans who dare to suggest that people should be allowed to keep what they earn, promising that government was there to stop them from doing so.
Schumer, who made an appearance Tuesday on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View,&#8221; spent much of the broadcast on his heels playing defense as the hosts grilled him over his last-minute support for the Republican-led Continuing Resolution that passed Friday and will fund the federal government through September.
During one segment, however, he paused to mock American conservatives and business owners who have the audacity to argue that they should be able to keep what they&#8217;ve earned and operate the businesses they&#8217;ve built in the way that they see fit.
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&#8220;You know what their attitude is?&#8221; Schumer asked, and then answered his own question in mocking tones: &#8220;&#8216;I made my money all by myself. How dare your government take my money from me? I don&#8217;t want to pay taxes.&#8217; Or, &#8216;I built my company with my bare hands. How dare your government tell me how I should treat my customers, my – the land and water that I own, or my employees?'&#8221;
&#8220;They hate government, government is a barrier to people. A barrier to stop them from doing things,&#8221; Schumer continued, raising his arms and shaking both fists. &#8220;They want to destroy it. We are not letting them do it, and we&#8217;re united!&#8221;
Despite Schumer&#8217;s claims, the Democratic Party has not appeared united of late. In the aftermath of Friday&#8217;s CR vote, a number of House Democrats and media personalities have come out and publicly criticized Schumer, arguing that he &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-think-you-caved-schumer-gets-an-absolute-grilling-on-the-view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">caved</a>&#8221; and suggesting that he might not be the right person to lead the Democrats in the Senate.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) led all but one Democrat in the lower chamber (Rep. Jared Golden of Maine) to vote against the CR, and while he is not normally one to be critical of Schumer, refused to answer when asked whether he believed Schumer was fit to continue leading in the Senate. &#8220;Next question,&#8221; was all he would say.

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On Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chuck-schumer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chuck Schumer</a> (D-NY) insisted that he is &#8220;best&#8221; suited to lead Democrats in the upper chamber as he faces a crisis of confidence in his party after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-clears-key-hurdle-to-avert-shutdown-after-schumer-surrenders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">refusing</a> to vote in favor of blocking a Republican-backed stopgap bill to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-officially-sends-funding-bill-to-trumps-desk-after-dems-cave" target="_blank" rel="noopener">avert</a> a partial government shutdown last week.
&#8220;I&#8217;m the best leader for the Senate,&#8221; Schumer said during a &#8220;CBS Mornings&#8221; interview when pressed on calls for him to step aside. &#8220;We have a lot of leaders — you know, when you don&#8217;t have a president, there&#8217;s not one leader of the party. There are lots of them. We have a lot of good people, but we — I am the best at keep — winning Senate seats. I&#8217;ve done it in 2005 to — just in 2020, no one thought we&#8217;d take back the Senate; under my leadership we took it.&#8221;
Democrats offered a four-week continuing resolution (CR) as an alternative to the GOP&#8217;s six-month measure, claiming it would give both sides time to reach a bipartisan agreement. However, Schumer declared he would not vote to stop the Republican funding patch, saying that allowing a shutdown would empower President Donald Trump to keep cutting programs as part of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) effort led by Elon Musk.
Immense blowback within the party ensued.
Liberal groups called for Schumer to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/15/dem-group-calls-schumer-step-down-minority-leader-spending-bill-vote-00232194" target="_blank" rel="noopener">step down</a> as Senate minority leader. Some Democrats in Congress openly rejected his stance in the spending fight, while House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) notably <a href="https://x.com/greg_price11/status/1900607500472275423" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> &#8220;next question&#8221; when asked if he had confidence in Schumer. And CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/politics/ocasio-cortez-schumer-democratic-shutdown-plan/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was mobilizing Democrats <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-rises-against-schumer-amid-shutdown-meltdown" target="_blank" rel="noopener">against</a> Schumer’s plan and noted some colleagues were privately urging the leftist firebrand to consider a primary challenge against him.
Schumer, who just <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chuck-schumer-scraps-book-tour-citing-security-concerns-amid-backlash-over-cr-vote" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scrapped</a> book tour appearances while citing safety concerns, claimed that he and Jeffries have a &#8220;plan&#8221; to counter Trump. As an example, Schumer referred to a <a href="https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/schumer-jeffries-joint-statement-on-medicaid-day-of-action" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joint statement</a> that he and Jeffries issued on Tuesday morning touting a &#8220;Medicaid Day of Action&#8221; they claimed would &#8220;push back&#8221; against the &#8220;extreme&#8221; Republican budget. The Senate minority leader added that they would highlight a variety of issues, such as tariffs.
&#8220;It&#8217;s beginning to work,&#8221; Schumer said. &#8220;His numbers have come down. If we keep at it, every day relentless fighting, and showing how they&#8217;re hurting people so badly, Trump&#8217;s numbers will get much lower and his both popularity but also his effectiveness will decline.&#8221;
Schumer will have his work cut out for him.
A national survey from NBC found that Trump and his second-term administration reached a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/yuge-poll-numbers-for-trump-president-cracks-right-direction-threshold-not-seen-since-2004" target="_blank" rel="noopener">significant milestone</a>, with 44% of Americans saying they believed the United States was &#8220;headed in the right direction&#8221; — the highest level since early 2004 when George W. Bush was president. Meanwhile, the same poll <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/yuge-poll-numbers-for-trump-president-cracks-right-direction-threshold-not-seen-since-2004" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> just 27% of respondents had a positive view of the Democrats. A survey from CNN that <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/16/politics/cnn-poll-democrats/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showed</a> their party at 29% favorability.
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