{"id":7429,"date":"2025-03-18T14:49:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T14:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/walz-knocks-schumer-over-government-funding-blowup\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T14:49:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T14:49:28","slug":"walz-knocks-schumer-over-government-funding-blowup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/walz-knocks-schumer-over-government-funding-blowup\/","title":{"rendered":"Walz knocks Schumer over government funding blowup"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tim Walz took a jab at Chuck Schumer over his decision to avert a government shutdown, accusing the party of ceding to Republicans.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that Chuck 100 percent believes that he made a decision that reduced the pain and the risk to Americans,\u201d the Minnesota governor said in the latest episode of Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s podcast released on Tuesday. \u201cI see it now that we’re in a point where \u2026 that pain is coming anyway and I think we gave up our leverage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walz\u2019s comments are the latest in the chorus of Democratic backlash aimed at Schumer<\/a> over the Senate Democratic leader\u2019s support for a Republican-backed stopgap measure last week to keep the government funded and prevent a government shutdown.<\/p>\n

Walz has long been scheduled to be a guest on Newsom\u2019s podcast, which launched on Tuesday. But Newsom\u2019s conversation with Walz was rerecorded on Monday, according to a person familiar with the discussion who was granted anonymity to discuss it. The original conversation came on the same day Newsom taped his episode with the campus culture warrior Charlie Kirk<\/a>. <\/p>\n

But Walz wanted the chance to address news that had happened since then, like Schumer\u2019s funding bill controversy.<\/p>\n

As a result of Schumer and a small group of other Democrats\u2019 support for the funding patch, Walz warned Newsom that Democrats will face blame for any negative fallout from the bill.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo the American public who doesn’t do this for a living and is out doing their job, they said, \u2018well, they passed this budget and they agreed with Donald Trump, and now we all own that,\u2019\u201d Walz said. \u201cI think you should have made Donald Trump justify why things were getting so bad.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walz\u2019s remarks about the funding controversy come on the heels of his recent critiques of the 2024 Harris-Walz campaign<\/a>, where he said the ticket did not take enough risks. He said he \u2014 along with other Democrats \u2014 should have made a stronger effort to engage with voters, particularly through town halls.<\/p>\n

Walz doubled down on criticism of his party during his interview with Newsom, saying the lack of coordination among Democrats on how to approach the funding debate only reinforced perceptions that the Democratic Party is fragmented.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the public saying is, \u2018you guys weren’t even coordinated on that,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tim Walz took a jab at Chuck Schumer over his decision to avert a government shutdown, accusing the party of ceding to Republicans. \u201cI believe that Chuck 100 percent believes that he made a decision that reduced the pain and the risk to Americans,\u201d the Minnesota governor said in the latest episode of Democratic California […]<\/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-7429","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\/7429","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=7429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}