{"id":15584,"date":"2025-11-12T17:46:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/aoc-blasts-senate-democrats-not-just-chuck-schumer-over-shutdown-deal\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T17:46:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:46:38","slug":"aoc-blasts-senate-democrats-not-just-chuck-schumer-over-shutdown-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/aoc-blasts-senate-democrats-not-just-chuck-schumer-over-shutdown-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC blasts Senate Democrats \u2014 not just Chuck Schumer \u2014 over shutdown deal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez laid the blame Wednesday for a disappointing deal ending the 43-day government shutdown at the feet of Senate Democrats as a whole \u2014 not just Majority Leader Chuck Schumer \u2014 noting there were \u201ceight Democrats who coordinated\u201d with Republicans to end the standoff.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of focus rightfully on Leader Schumer<\/a>, but I do think that when it comes to the Senate, it is Senate Democrats that select their leadership,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez said about her fellow New York Democrat in a brief interview. \u201cAnd so I actually think this problem is much bigger than Leader Schumer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ocasio-Cortez, a leader of the party’s progressive wing, put Schumer on blast in March after he voted to advance Republican legislation to keep the government open. Some House Democrats have privately floated supporting a potential Ocasio-Cortez primary bid against Schumer in 2028, something she has neither embraced nor ruled out.<\/p>\n

Asked on Wednesday if she has confidence in Schumer as leader, Ocasio-Cortez said she \u201ccertainly disagreed with what just happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a responsibility to develop, to deliver on health care subsidies, and the Senate failed to do that,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Ocasio-Cortez, in later remarks to reporters, acknowledged the calls for her to mount a 2028 Senate run, potentially against Schumer, but again sidestepped questions about her intentions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is years from now,” she said. “I have to remind my own constituents, because they think that this election is this year.”<\/p>\n

Schumer did not endorse or vote for the agreement that eight members of his caucus reached with Republicans that will reopen the government open but will not guarantee an extension of expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits that Democrats are fighting for. But those calling for new leadership point to the fact that he couldn\u2019t keep his caucus together and didn\u2019t do more to head off the effort. <\/p>\n

At least five House Democrats have called for Schumer to step aside<\/a> as the party\u2019s leader in the Senate. No Democratic senators have done so.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez laid the blame Wednesday for a disappointing deal ending the 43-day government shutdown at the feet of Senate Democrats as a whole \u2014 not just Majority Leader Chuck Schumer \u2014 noting there were \u201ceight Democrats who coordinated\u201d with Republicans to end the standoff. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of focus rightfully on Leader Schumer, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}