{"id":15051,"date":"2025-03-24T12:08:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T12:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/democratic-leadership-questions-loom-over-congress-return\/"},"modified":"2025-03-24T12:08:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T12:08:44","slug":"democratic-leadership-questions-loom-over-congress-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/democratic-leadership-questions-loom-over-congress-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic leadership questions loom over Congress&#8217; return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Washington \u2014 <\/em>Congress returns Monday from a weeklong recess as the fallout continues from Senate Minority Leader Chuck <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/government-shutdown-2025-senate-democrats-vote\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Schumer&#8217;s move<\/a><\/span> to help Republicans advance a controversial spending bill earlier this month to <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/government-shutdown-vote-senate-gop-measure\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">avoid a government shutdown<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As lawmakers left Washington following many weeks in session, a recess that Democrats initially hoped would be marked by a show of force against the Trump administration and Republican control of Washington was punctuated by handwringing over the party&#8217;s direction \u2014 and questions about its leadership.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Democrats remained mum as they left Washington in the aftermath of the tense funding fight. And at town halls from Colorado to California, Democrats sidestepped questions about Schumer&#8217;s decision and his leadership of the upper chamber more broadly, previewing a messy return to Washington as the party contends with its divisions.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Michael Bennet, a Colorado Democrat, dodged a question about Schumer being replaced as leader last week, before pivoting to former President Joe Biden and urging that &#8220;it&#8217;s important for people to know, you know, when it&#8217;s time to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"Democratic Senators Reach Enough Votes To Pass GOP Budget Bill \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/03\/23\/d2a9c98b-d957-4967-87d8-dea0f18456fd\/thumbnail\/620x413\/d6bdf0686f99efd4e131c7f6e37fe8ec\/gettyimages-2205141496.jpg?v=9e5c48f1b04ac2a564e8a4c51250ac89 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/03\/23\/d2a9c98b-d957-4967-87d8-dea0f18456fd\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/6f7faf3f18d06459925a49758bb48a13\/gettyimages-2205141496.jpg?v=9e5c48f1b04ac2a564e8a4c51250ac89 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) walks in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol on March 14, 2025 in Washington, DC.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Tasos Katopodis \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to have conversations I&#8217;m sure in the foreseeable future about all the Democratic leadership,&#8221; Bennet said at a town hall in Golden, Colorado.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Glenn Ivey of Maryland became the first Democratic lawmaker to openly call for new Senate leadership at a town hall last week, saying that though he respects Schumer and his long tenure in Washington, &#8220;it may be time for the Senate Democrats to pick new leadership as we move forward.&#8221; Rep. Delia Ramirez followed suit at a town hall in Chicago last week. And progressive youth groups joined in on the criticism, urging Schumer in a letter obtained by CBS News to &#8220;fight for us or step aside.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Still, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who initially opted not to comment when asked whether he was confident in Schumer&#8217;s leadership, weighed in with support for Schumer last week. And Speaker Emerita \u00a0 Nancy Pelosi echoed the confidence in Schumer&#8217;s leadership, though <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/nancy-pelosi-chuck-schumer-shutdown-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">she delivered a stinging rebuke<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I myself don&#8217;t give away anything for nothing,&#8221; Pelosi said. &#8220;And I think that&#8217;s what happened the other day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Schumer had initially signaled that his caucus would fight back against a partisan measure to keep the government funded after the House passed the measure in a narrow vote that came as a surprise to some. But a day later, Schumer reluctantly pledged to advance the continuing resolution, delivering one of the Democratic votes necessary to propel the measure to passage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The New York Democrat has stood by his decision, while arguing that he remains the &#8220;best leader for the Senate.&#8221; <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/chuck-schumer-senate-leader-after-shutdown-vote\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">He told<\/a><\/span> &#8220;CBS Mornings&#8221; last week that as bad as the founding bill was, &#8220;a shutdown is 10 times worse.&#8221; On Sunday, he said on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; that he&#8217;s not stepping down.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The backlash against Schumer has come as Democrats contend with the party&#8217;s direction and approach more broadly after the 2024 elections delivered bruising defeats up and down the ballot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent who caucuses with Democrats, shifted the blame away from Schumer, saying on CNN last week that although &#8220;no one is in the caucus&#8221; is more critical of the minority leader than he is, &#8220;it&#8217;s not Schumer\u2026 it&#8217;s the Democratic party.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Later in the week, Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez held a rally in Las Vegas. In an interview with CBS News at the rally, the Vermont independent said the &#8220;Democratic party has not been the kind of party we need to represent the working class of this country in so many ways.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no reason why we have massive income and wealth inequality, why we&#8217;re the only major country on earth not to guarantee healthcare to all people,&#8221; Sanders added.<\/p>\n<p>Across a number of town halls last week, constituents turned the focus from possible threats to Medicaid under GOP control of Washington to criticism of the Democratic Party itself.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During a town hall held by Democratic Sens. Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego in Arizona last week, one constituent questioned the party&#8217;s overall messaging strategy, suggesting they should get &#8220;dirtier&#8221; with their approach against Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They fight dirtier and we are not willing to get in the mud with them,&#8221; the constituent said. &#8220;Maybe it&#8217;s time we start getting a little bit dirtier with our messaging.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Nidia Cavazos, Jaala Brown contributed.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/kaia-hubbard\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Kaia Hubbard<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div 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