Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is facing difficulties leading the Democrats because they want to shut down the government.
Schumer privately suggested a means to end the shutdown if it happens. However, he publicly condemned the same concept as a strategy to stop the shutdown from happening in the first place, according to Axios.
He was dealing with an “open mutiny” in his own party.
Schumer planned to pass a package that would keep the government running for seven to ten days. This would give Democrats time to talk with Republicans in Congress and President Donald Trump on restoring funds for Obamacare subsidies and other Democratic demands.
The government will run out of money at 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday if there is no agreement.
The far left side of Schumer’s party didn’t want any of it.
Greg Casar, a Democratic congressman from Texas and the outspokenly anti-Trump head of the House Progressive Caucus, criticized it in a post on the social media site X.
