The far left is not happy with Chuck Schumer.
According to a CNN report, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has expressed frustrations with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer after the senator backed down on the CR funding bill fight.
Schumer announced on the Senate floor this week that he would support funding the government to avoid a shutdown.
“While the CR bill is very bad, the potential for a shutdown has consequences for America that are much, much worse,” Schumer said Thursday on the Senate floor.
“A shutdown would give Donald Trump the keys to the city, the state and the country,” Schumer said, later adding, “The shutdown is not a political game. Shutdown means real pain for American families.”
AOC says there is a “deep sense of outrage and betrayal” and Democrats have been “texting, calling, sending carrier pigeons” to rally opposition to Schumer’s plan to advance the GOP funding bill.
AOC also spoke with CNN’s Jake Tapper about her faceoff with the upper chamber.
There are also reports that AOC colleagues want Schumer primaried.
From CNN:
Privately, House Democrats are so infuriated with Schumer’s decision that some have begun encouraging her to run against Schumer in a primary, according to a Democratic member who directly spoke with Ocasio-Cortez about running at the caucus’ policy retreat. Multiple Democrats in the Congressional Progressive Caucus and others directly encouraged Ocasio-Cortez to run on Thursday night after Schumer’s announcement, this member said.
The member said that Democrats in Leesburg were “so mad” that even centrist Democrats were “ready to write checks for AOC for Senate,” adding that they have “never seen people so mad.”
Asked by CNN about fellow Democrats encouraging her to challenge Schumer, Ocasio-Cortez declined to answer and said she was focused on keeping Democrats from backing the funding bill: “We still have an opportunity to correct course here, and that is my number one priority.”
Schumer told MSNBC he “knew” criticism was coming but insisted he was “obligated—for the country, the Democratic caucus, and the people—to explain the devastating impact of a shutdown.”
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