{"id":7300,"date":"2025-03-14T18:04:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T18:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/jeffries-stays-silent-on-schumers-future-as-senate-leader\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T18:04:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T18:04:28","slug":"jeffries-stays-silent-on-schumers-future-as-senate-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/jeffries-stays-silent-on-schumers-future-as-senate-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffries stays silent on Schumer&#8217;s future as Senate leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries sidestepped a question about the leadership of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer \u2014 a stunning demonstration of the breach that has emerged between the two New York Democrats over a looming government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Next question,&#8221; Jeffries told reporters when asked if there should be new leadership in the Senate. He also declined to answer a question on whether he had confidence in Schumer and said that while he&#8217;d been in touch with his fellow leader, their conversations would &#8220;remain private.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Schumer said Thursday he planned to vote to advance a GOP-written funding patch to avert a shutdown, which is said was the better of two bad options.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a false choice that Donald Trump, Elon Musk and House Republicans have been presenting, between their reckless and partisan spending bill and a government shutdown,\u201d Jeffries responded Friday. \u201cWe do not support a bill that is designed to hurt the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether Schumer had acquiesced to Trump, Jeffries said there was still time \u2014 the vote had not taken place yet, and some senators were still undeclared, he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries sidestepped a question about the leadership of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer \u2014 a stunning demonstration of the breach that has emerged between the two New York Democrats over a looming government shutdown. &#8220;Next question,&#8221; Jeffries told reporters when asked if there should be new leadership in the Senate. He [&hellip;]<\/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-7300","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\/7300","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=7300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}