Progressive group calls for Schumer to step down as Senate Democratic leader

Published March 15, 2025 10:35pm ET



A progressive grassroots group is calling on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to leave his leadership perch after he helped pass a GOP-crafted government funding bill.

Indivisible, a group formed during President Donald Trump‘s first administration, called the passage of the bill a “travesty,” directing specific ire at Schumer, who the group said squandered a “point of leverage” and “wave[d] the white flag of surrender” by voting to pass the bill to avoid a shutdown.

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