LEMON DROP | Congressman Ro Khanna Says Chuck Schumer Should Be Replaced!

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🗓️ 11 November 2025

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Don sits down with Congressman Ro Khanna, who’s making headlines after calling for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to step down. In a fiery post, Khanna wrote: “Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?” With Democrats divided over how the government shutdown was handled, and growing frustration over rising healthcare costs, many in the party are now asking the same question: Is it time for new leadership? Don and Congressman Khanna break down the growing rift inside the Democratic Party, what this moment says about accountability, and where the fight goes from here. 🍋 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Congressman Roe Kana, thank you for joining us.
0:16.6	Always good to be on, Don.
0:18.9	Congressman, I want to play something that you're one of your Senate colleagues, a colleague in the Senate, actually the head of the minority leader, Chuck Schumer said last night when they were voting on this deal. Here it is.
0:32.6	For months and months, Democrats have been fighting to get the Senate to address the health
0:38.8	care crisis.
0:40.3	This bill does nothing to ensure that that crisis is addressed.
0:44.8	I am voting no, and I will keep fighting.
0:48.3	Okay, so here's what I don't understand, and perhaps you can help me, because you are a
0:51.8	politician.
0:53.0	Chuck Schumer is the Senate Minority Leader.
0:55.0	He's supposed to be the leader.
0:58.0	He voted no.
0:59.0	Now, the reporting is that he didn't have much to do with these negotiations.
1:02.0	I don't understand why if he is the leader.
1:05.0	You put out a tweet saying, Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced.
1:09.0	If you can't lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for? So please help me
1:16.6	to understand Chuck Schumer's, I don't know, his involvement in all of this and his stance
1:22.9	on all of this, why he is not voting for it, but yet I don't understand it. Help me understand.
1:31.1	Well, Don, look, the senators who voted for it have been on TV saying that they kept Schumer
1:37.3	in the loop at every step of the way. You don't just have a deal like this happen with the Senate
1:44.1	minority leader not blessing it.
1:46.4	And if he was really opposed to this, but you had eight senators going row, he could have
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