DAVID MARCUS: How Chuck Schumer finally reaped the whirlwind
Squad member Rashida Tlaib and Rep. Ro Khanna among House Democrats calling for leadership change
By David Marcus Fox News
Published November 14, 2025 11:22am EST
In 2020, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer unleashed a threat against the Supreme Court’s conservative justices in the wake of their decision to overturn Roe vs Wade’s national protection for abortion. "You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price," he bellowed. "You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions."
Although Schumer's bellicose words may have contributed to an attempt on Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s life back then, five years later it is not the men and women in robes suffering a whirlwind, but rather Schumer himself, and it is one of his own making.
This week, Schumer is facing calls to step down from his leadership position from multiple House Democrats including Squad member Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and neo-centrist Rep. Ro Khana, D-Calif., after his shambolic performance during the government shutdown.
It is likely only a matter of time before such calls for Schumer’s ouster echo in the upper chamber as well.
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In the end, Christ had an easier 40 days in the desert than Schumer had during this shutdown, where he went from swearing not just that Democrats would never back down, but that they were winning the fight politically, to watching Democrats capitulate with nothing in return.
As former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy pointed out, this was the ‘Seinfeld shutdown," a shutdown about nothing, and Schumer was decidedly George.
Tellingly, Chuck himself did not sign on to the deal to open the government, start paying out SNAP benefits and unchoke our airports, which only makes him appear weaker, because he can’t control his caucus.
