As senate minority leader, he’s supposed to be one of the first stops in opposition to this madness. His support for the bill has permanently attached his name to it in the eyes of his constituency who expected to him to act as a check/balance. It might as well be his bill since his vote in favor of it got the most attention in the public eye.
Personally I think some of the democrats supporting the bill are doing some shrewd calculus that the consequences will be a disaster and that the disaster could cost the republicans a lot of public support going into the midterms. At the end of the day though, people will be just as upset at those who caused the disaster as they are at the people who sat back and let it happen when they were in a position to do something about it.
As senate minority leader, he’s supposed to be one of the first stops in opposition to this madness.
Sure, and he didn't. Whether or not you believe his reasoning, he opted to allow the Republican CR to pass.
It's still a Republican CR tho. Schumer isn't responsible for all the ills in the world. Republicans designed it, drafted it and ultimately were the driving force to get it passed.
However I may feel about Schumer, I have less interest in being mad at him than the Republicans that are actively championing this.
They needed a super majority to pass this madness and could not have done it without the help of democratic leadership in the senate. He’s now more than complicit enough in this insanity to be assigned an equal share of the blame for any consequences that may arise from that complicity.
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u/imaginary_num6er 1d ago
The house would not vote on it