U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, has been getting pummeled by calls for him to resign from his position, not by conservatives, but progressive activists. However, those same calls are now coming from a lawmaker in his own party.
Ouch. That’s got a smart. Big time.
During a town hall held in the very blue D.C. area district, Rep. Glenn Ivey, a Maryland Democrat, took an opportunity to use the series of questions he was asked during the event to take a few shots at Schumer by stating how dissatisfied the Democrats in the House are with his support of the GOP government funding plan while their party basically gets a big, thick nothing burger in return.
Ivey dropped a bomb smack on Schumer’s head by stating during the town hall that his failure to get anything Democrats wanted in the resolution is a sign he’s no longer fit to lead.
“I respect Chuck Schumer. I think he had a great, long-standing career, did a lot of great things, but I’m afraid that it may be time for the Senate Democrats to get a new leader,” Ivey, a former employee of Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, said to the audience.
“Hundreds of angry constituents packed into a high school gymnasium in Prince George’s County to hear from Ivey, a mild-mannered progressive who joined House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and all but one Democrat in opposing the House GOP’s passage last week of a CR,” Trending Politics News reported.
“I know shutting down the government is not good, I’ve tried to oppose it every time I could, but in this particular instance, it was something that we needed to do,” he tacked on to the previous statement, a report from the Huffington Post said.
The crowd of 800 or more, many of them recently laid-off federal workers, burst into applause at Ivey’s remarks but still gave him an earful about their frustration with President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s seemingly unstoppable crusade to overhaul and downsize the federal government at breakneck speed.
At Rep. Glenn Ivey’s (D-MD) townhall, an attendee shouts at the lawmaker.
“You’re talking about voting, the House is on fire. It is not business as usual. It’s not….this is bullshit”
Ivey’s office said they did not escort the woman out, but to check for a medical crisis. pic.twitter.com/yuTRPrO2rL
— Syedah Asghar (@SyedahAsghar) March 19, 2025
Rep. Ivey’s remarks stood in contrast to more measured responses by some of Schumer’s colleagues. At her own Tuesday night town hall, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) dodged an opportunity to call for her party’s leader to step down, instead redirecting her answer toward staving off a continuation of President Trump’s 2017 tax cuts. Still, she made clear she disagreed with his tactic.
Warren said that she believes Schumer is wrong.
Jeffries also took the coward’s way out by refusing to provide a clear answer as to whether he would be in support of handing Schumer a pink slip after the vote last week. Pelosi, a former speaker of the House, also dropped an elbow on the New York Democrat. Metaphorically, of course.
“I myself don’t give away anything for nothing,” she said in an interview with Politico.
In a rather strange move, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who for some reason is being considered as a possible contender for the presidency in 2028, asked California Gov. Gavin Newsom to re-record a part of his podcast so he could have an opportunity to weigh in on Schumer’s support for the GOP resolution.
“I believe that Chuck 100 percent believes that he made a decision that reduced the pain and the risk to Americans,” the Minnesota governor remarked on Newsom’s new show. “I see it now that we’re in a point where … that pain is coming anyway and I think we gave up our leverage.”
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