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Dem House radicals fret that Chuck will ‘sh*t the bed’ in shutdown fight

September 10, 2025 | | Print Article

As the latest government shutdown deadline looms, remarks on leadership found leftists concerned one Democratic Party power player was poised to “sh*t the bed.”

In 1858, then-Illinois senatorial candidate Abraham Lincoln famously referenced the Gospel when he expressed, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Now, despite lofty narratives about their base’s enthusiasm, the elected left appear at odds with themselves as House lawmakers anonymously express their concerns about Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D) possible “cold feet” in the funding fight.

Those worries were voiced to Axios on Tuesday after House Democrats concluded their weekly closed-door meeting, which was said to have included a “vent session” about the New York senator.

“There was anticipatory anger rooted in what went down in March … Schumer was named explicitly,” one anonymous representative told the outlet. “The overriding concern was that Senate Democrats will get cold feet. Schumer can’t sh*t the bed.”

In March, Schumer was joined by nine other Senate Democrats, surpassing the 60-vote threshold needed for the cloture vote to avoid a government shutdown, as he argued, “I believe it is my job to make the best choice for the country to minimize the harm to the American people. Therefore, I will vote to keep the government open and not shut it down.”

“We don’t want to get screwed again by the Senate,” another lawmaker told Axios. “I think no matter what happens, people come after Schumer [because] we need generational change.”

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Further defending his position at the time, the senator appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” to spin his vote, telling the hosts, “I believe allowing Donald Trump to take even much more power via a government shutdown is a far worse option.”

“I knew I’d get flak,” he added. “You know, I’ve learned in politics through the years, the higher up you climb on that political mountain, the more fiercely the winds blow.”

Of course, the funding fight wasn’t the only battle over which Schumer took heat as commentator Jon Stewart begged the left to “stop f*cking trotting Schumer out” after the senator’s response to the president’s tariffs was “to f*cking tell us guacamole is made of avocados.”

Axios went on to report that Congress was once again on track to act with a continuing resolution rather than pass the annual appropriations bills and that both Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) had opened the possibility of support from the left if certain provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act pertaining to health insurance were reversed.

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In particular, the Democratic Party is seeking a turnabout on Medicaid cuts and the extension of Obamacare subsidies.

“House and Senate Democrats have been in close touch throughout this process, and we will continue to meet in regularity,” Jeffries told Axios.

Still, the second lawmaker who spoke with the outlet said with regard to the House and Senate, “I know that they are communicating more, [Jeffries] has conveyed that to us, but I don’t feel a level of confidence about anything right now.”

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