“Schumer is bad at his job,” said one organizer. “Jeffries is not ready for this moment.”

After a Democratic “tsunami” in this week’s midterm elections that has been widely seen as “a mandate to deliver big change,” progressives within and beyond Congress have cast doubt on whether the New York Democrats likely to lead both chambers are actually up for facing Donald Trump’s veto threats and fighting for the “bold agenda” sought by US voters.

As critics of artificial intelligence data centers prepared for a Friday protest outside the Brooklyn home of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer over a “dirty” bill that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is suddenly speaking out about, political organizer Corbin Trent argued that “Schumer is bad at his job” and “Jeffries is not ready for this moment.”

  • Manjushri@piefed.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    40
    ·
    2 days ago

    Schumer works for Israel, not the American people. No way in hell he should lead the Democrats in the Senate.

    "I have many jobs as leader… and one is to fight for aid to Israel, all the aid that Israel needs,” he told a group of pro-Israel Jewish leaders at the time.

    “As long as I’m in the Senate, this programme will continue to grow from strength to strength, and we won’t let anyone attack it or undo it,” Schumer said, even referring to US taxpayer aid for Israel as his “baby”.

    The Democrats did not sweep the midterms just to keep spewing money at Israel so they can give their citizens free health care and higher education while we pay for their genocide of of the Palestinian.