It Turns Out Chuck Schumer Was Working Behind the Scenes in Futile Effort to Prolong the Schumer Shutdown
Amy Curtis
Last night, the Senate finally moved to end the Schumer Shutdown and held a second vote to reopen the government. It passed the 60-vote threshold and will head to the House this week. The Left is very unhappy with the deal and is blaming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
Leftists on BlueSky were calling for the guillotine, and Democrats like Ro Khanna and Seth Moulton are looking to replace Schumer. Even Sunny Hostin demanded Schumer's ouster on The View yesterday. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) also said he's not done fighting, saying in a video, "It looks like eight Democrats have joined Republicans to vote for a temporary reopening of the government for about two months, but a bill with no protections to stop the coming health care disaster in this country caused by Donald Trump's premium increases, nor any provisions to meaningfully stop Trump's corruption and his illegality." So he blames Schumer, too.
But it turns out Schumer was working behind the scenes to keep his shutdown going.
Here's more:
As Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer publicly battled Republicans over the government shutdown, he was privately cajoling a group of moderates not to fold before November.
Why it matters: Democrats are blaming Schumer (D-N.Y.) for not prolonging the shutdown. In reality, it could have been much shorter.
Two weeks into the shutdown, a group of moderates told Schumer they were ready to vote to open the government, according to three sources familiar with the conversation.
It's unclear if that group was big enough to end the shutdown. But Schumer persuaded the moderates to hold out until at least the beginning of November, when open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act began.
In mid-October, he made it clear to his entire caucus that he was likely to come out against the emerging bipartisan deal that a group of moderate senators were pushing.
Axios also reports that moderate Democrats like New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (NH) warned Schumer that they weren't on board with the Schumer Shutdown fight in the first place. Shaheen led the bipartisan talks for a compromise and said, "We let him [Schumer] know what we were doing."
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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2025/11/11/axios-schumer-wanted-to-extend-shutdown-n2666250
