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Senate minority leader Chuck SchumerDn.y., and the minority leader of the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, Dn.y., reside just a few blocks from each other while crossing the heights of the prospects to the park of the slope in Brooklyn.
But political observers suspect that there is practically a bridge of political distance between the two Brooklyn Democrats now. Schumer decided to help Republicans break a filibuster and prevent government closure last week. Schumer’s decision caused mocking howls from the Democrats of the House of Representatives who were practically unified in their opposition to the republican expenses package. Schumer and nine other Democrats voted to break the filibuster. That sent many Democrats to a stroke attack.
Distance and geography help us understand this perceived abyss between Schumer and Jeffries.
It is a solid 40 miles from the Lansdowne complex in Leesburg, Virginia, to the United States Capitol in Washington, DC. After the Chamber voted to approve the Emergency Expenditure bill last Tuesday, the Democrats placed Leesburg for their annual problems withdrawal. Jeffries and other Democratic leaders held a press conference on the first day. Other Democrats spoke at nine press conference over the following days.
But returning to Capitol Hill last Friday, Jeffries and other democratic leaders would return from Leesburg for a press conference just before the vote to break a filibuster to the extent of expenses.
Schumer said that avoiding a government closure was the least of the two ills. He argued that a closure would even more empower President Trump and Elon Musk to reduce the federal departments of the workforce and closure.
Jeffries was not buying it. And I needed to point to the Democrats on which side it was.
Recently a remarkable crack was inaugurated among the leader of the representatives Chamber, Hakeem Jeffries, DN.Y., and the leader of the Senate minority Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., after the decision of the latter to help Republicans to break a filibuster and prevent a government closure. (Getty images)
“The Democrats of the House of Representatives strongly oppose the project of Republican Expenditure Party that will damage families, will hurt veterans, hurt the elderly and hurt the American people,” Jeffries said. “It is a false option that Donald TrumpElon Musk and the Republicans of the Chamber have been presenting. “
Schumer and Jeffries spoke after the main Democrat in the Senate announced that he would reluctantly vote to break a filibuster and take several Democratic colleagues along with him. Republicans control the Senate. But they only have 53 votes. Sixty votes are needed to crush a filibuster. That’s where the Democrats enter.
And Schumer gave.
“Is it time for a new leadership in the Senate,” he asked Chase Williams of Fox Business to Jeffries at the Democratic Leadership Press Conference of the House of Representatives in Capitol Hill.
“Next question,” Jeffries replied.
Another reporter tried a different approach.
Jeffries has continued to be a mother about whether he maintains faith in Schumer to act in the interest of the Democratic Party. (AP Photo/Rod Lampkey, Jr.)
“Have you lost confidence in him, the fact that you see this in a different way,” asked the journalist.
“Next question,” echoed Jeffries.
What is not said is often what speaks stronger in politics. That is what was so surprising about the identical responses of Jeffries when asked about his partner Brooklynite. Again, Jeffries slipped over the bill and how Schumer yielded to the Republicans. Otherwise, he and other democratic leaders would not have pushed back to Capitol Hill from the suburbs of Virginia to expel the legislation.
Democrats explode Sen. Chuck Schumer to support the spending bill of the Republican Party
His really wanted to track after the press conference, given the direct reluctance of Jeffries over Schumer.
“Why were you afraid to say something about Schumer when they asked you?” I asked Jeffries while leaving the study of the Radio/Television Gallery of the house.
Jeffries’ behavior is usually cooler than a Mister Softee cone in a shadow tree in Prospect Park in August. But after my question, Jeffries stopped dry and showed a touch of anger.
The Jeffries, generally calm and collected, seems unusually irritable when asked about the state of their relationship with their counterpart of the Senate. (AP Photo / J. Scott Applewhite)
“Do not characterize! No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No,” Jeffries warned,
“But my question was, why are you afraid of saying something?” Interpreter.
“Don’t characterize my comments. I’m not afraid of anything. Anything!” Jeffries said.
“You went to another question,” I noticed.
“I said I was clear that we hope to work with each of our Senate Democratic colleagues. Each of them who rejected against him Trump administration. Each one of them. It is very clear, “said Jeffries.
MSNBC Panel Grills Schumer to support the spending of the Republican Party
Then Jeffries had the thin line to walk. Incinerate the Provisional Expenditure Bill. Show the rank democrats how unhappy it was with what the Senate was doing. However, be careful with what he says about Schumer.
But as we said, what is not said often speaks stronger. Jeffries demonstrated his disgust. But, frankly, Jeffries did not have to say much. Just returning to the Capitol said all. And do it just after obtaining a house from the Chamber’s Democrats on Schumer’s maneuver, he could have obtained some points from Jeffries.
Then, returning to the questions at the Democratic Leadership Press Conference of the House of Representatives …
Senator Mark Warner, D-VA., Opposed the project of provisional expenses, but was torn due to the large volume of federal workers who comprise their constituency. (Reuters)
“Is it time for a new leadership in the Senate?” And, has Jeffries “lose confidence” in Schumer?
The second interrogative is not so important. Democrats nationwide, if not the Senate Democrats, will determine what they want to do with Schumer. In any case.
Senator Mark Warner, D-VA., Opposed the bill of intermediate expenses. Warner was torn because it represents so many federal workers in Virginia del Norte.
Democrats attack Schumer for ‘betrayal’ of putting on Trump’s side
“Are you going to issue a statement about Schumer’s leadership?” He asked a Warner reporter after the vote to finance the government.
“It is the leader Schumer the right leader at this time,” another asked.
“I have faith in Chuck Schumer,” Warner replied.
The scribes asked Senator Martin Heinrich, Dn.m., after the vote.
“We also need to discover how to use our leverage,” said Heinrich.
It is possible that the Democrats cannot stop the “Great and Beautiful” expenses plan of President Trump when Congress clear, however, equally undesirable for them is the fault of a government closure. (AP/Getty Images)
In other words, some Democrats believed that the Interim Expenditure Bill was a turning point. It is possible that President Trump and the Republicans of Congress approve the “Big and Beautiful Law” to reduce spending and reduce taxes. But they could have closed the government filibusting the expenses plan because it did not reflect any important democratic priority. They needed to stand up.
“The leader Schumer has been very effective in many battles. But these are new times,” said Heinrich. “The second leader of Schumer riddles here will not achieve the type of unity that we will need to defend the president. So we will have that conversation within the Caucus.”
The Senate is out until next week. That could cool some of the tensions. But it can also exacerbate them. Schumer was supposed to go to a tour this week, promoting his book “Anti -Semitism in the United States.” Baltimore and Washington appearances are now canceled “due to security concerns.”
Anyway, it is possible that dissonance about Schumer’s leadership has eclipsed everything he can say about anti -Semitism in his next book.
Some Democrats are asking Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-CortezDn.y .. to primary schumer if it runs for another term in 2028.
Should Senate democrats try to expel Schumer? Good luck with that. In the House of Representatives, the full membership chooses the President. He or she is the constitutional officer of the Government’s legislative branch. In the Senate, the positions of the majority and the minority leader are determined by their respective caucus or conferences, behind closed doors. Therefore, there is no “movement to evict the chair” as in the house. The true power of the majority leader comes from the custom of the Senate that first recognizes the majority leader, before the other 99.
The Senate has only eliminated a party leader in recent memory. And that was not even formally done on the floor. The administration of President George W. Bush and other Republicans threw themselves to the former leader of the majority of the Senate, Trent Lott, Miss Republican. Lott made comments that suggested that the nation would have been better with the late Senator Strom Thurmond, RS.C., and some of his racist policies if he had won the presidency.
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To tell the truth, some Republicans were only looking for a reason to leave Lott. And so, Lott left in favor of the former leader of the majority of the Senate, Bill Frist, Tenn Republican.
It is possible that Filibuster’s vote of the expense bill has democrats who now seek to overturn to Schumer. Now there is a growing abyss between Schumer and the liberal democrats.
Democrats fight an internal war, while Republicans seem unified behind President Trump. And the distance between some Democrats is now much broader than a few blocks in Brooklyn.
