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Pissed At What Chuck Just Got Through? Call Your Senators (if Dems) and Tell Them to Remove Him From Senate Leadership (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml to c/General

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House dems are PISSED at what Schumer just did. This is the case where outside voices are maximally helpful - when people on the inside of the party want him out. Let's build continued pressure. This will not happen overnight, it will happened when we keep the pressure consistently high

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[–] hallettj@leminal.space 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

These are the Democrats (plus Angus King) who voted to end the filibuster to allow a vote on the budget stopgap bill:

Catherine Cortez Masto - Nevada
Richard J. Durbin - Illinois
John Fetterman - Pennsylvania
Kirsten Gillibrand - New York
Maggie Hassan - New Hampshire
Angus King - Maine
Gary Peters - Michigan
Brian Schatz - Hawaii
Chuck Schumer - New York
Jeanne Shaheen - New Hampshire

source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/14/us/politics/senate-government-funding-vote.html

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

These are the Democrats (plus Angus King)

to clarify for others, Angus King is technically an independent but caucuses with dems. Kind of like what Bernie does (except Bernie has a spine and didn't vote for cloture here)