Dems: Chuck's Not Like Us

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🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

While Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer may have kept the U.S. government from shutting down last week, his decision to help Republicans pass a spending plan has kicked off a civil war within the Democratic Party. Many on the left are desperate for a fight with President Donald Trump and seething mad at their own party, which they view as, at best, too complacent in the face of Trump's attacks. And Schumer is now the face of that white-hot rage, with questions swirling about his future as the party’s Senate leader. But Josh Barro, who writes the Substack newsletter ‘Very Serious,’ says Schumer did the right thing. And in headlines: The White House said it deported hundreds of migrants under the Alien Enemies Act despite a judge’s order, the U.S. launched a wave of airstrikes on Yemen targeting Houthi rebels, and those American astronauts who’ve been stranded up in space for months could return to earth this week.

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0:00.0	It's Monday, March 17th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is Wadaday.
0:06.2	The show that is wondering if President Donald Trump knows what sarcasm is.
0:10.5	Curie is speaking with host Cheryl Atkinson on her show, Full Measure.
0:14.4	I'm not understating the complexity of all this, but as a candidate, you said you would have this war settled in 24 hours.
0:21.7	Well, I was being a little bit sarcastic when I said that.
0:25.6	That's not what sarcasm is.
0:30.5	On today's show, the Trump administration seems to have ignored a federal court order.
0:34.9	And those American astronauts who've been stranded up in space forever
0:38.1	could return to Mother Earth this week. But let's start with Democrats, who averted a government
0:43.9	shutdown only to kick off an intra-party civil war. On Friday, Senate Democrats, led by minority
0:50.1	leader Chuck Schumer, agreed to a continuing resolution to keep the government open.
0:58.1	Democrats who supported the bill argued that permitting the government to shut down would give President Donald Trump and co-president and noted weirdo Elon Musk more power to make life
1:03.7	worse for everyday Americans. It's a stance Schumer reiterated in a Saturday interview with the New York
1:08.3	Times. He said there was no telling how far Musk and Trump would have taken a shutdown.
1:13.3	It can last forever.
1:15.4	There is no off ramp.
1:17.2	One of the Republican senators told us, we go to a shutdown,
1:20.7	which is going to be there for six months, nine months a year.
1:23.5	And by then, their goal of destroying the federal government would be gone.
1:28.4	But Schumer also said he knew his decision would make him persona non grata in the Democratic Party.
1:33.6	I knew this would be an unpopular decision.
1:36.6	I knew that.
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