JUST IN: Democrat Congressman Calls For Schumer’s Ouster

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has for days grown accustomed to hearing calls from progressive activists for him to step down, but those cries finally reached the halls of Congress on Tuesday night when a lawmaker in his own party did the same.

At a town hall in his deep-blue Washington, D.C.-area district, Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-MD) used the volley of a question as an opportunity to fire back with how dissatisfied House Democrats were to see Schumer support the Republicans’ government funding plan while receiving nothing in return. The Senate Democrat’s retreat, let alone failure to secure a single provision in the continuing resolution, is a sign he’s no longer in a position to lead, Ivey said.

“I respect Chuck Schumer. I think he had a great, long-standing career, did a lot of great things, but I’m afraid that it may be time for the Senate Democrats to get a new leader,” Ivey, a former employee of Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, told the audience.

Hundreds of angry constituents packed into a high school gymnasium in Prince George’s County to hear from Ivey, a mild-mannered progressive who joined House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and all but one Democrat in opposing the House GOP’s passage last week of a CR.

“I know shutting down the government is not good, I’ve tried to oppose it every time I could, but in this particular instance, it was something that we needed to do,” he added, according to the Huffington Post.

The crowd of 800 or more, many of them recently laid-off federal workers, burst into applause at Ivey’s remarks but still gave him an earful about their frustration with President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s seemingly unstoppable crusade to overhaul and downsize the federal government at breakneck speed.

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At Rep. Glenn Ivey’s (D-MD) townhall, an attendee shouts at the lawmaker.

“You’re talking about voting, the House is on fire. It is not business as usual. It’s not….this is bullshit”

Ivey’s office said they did not escort the woman out, but to check for a medical crisis. pic.twitter.com/yuTRPrO2rL

— Syedah Asghar (@SyedahAsghar) March 19, 2025

Rep. Ivey’s remarks stood in contrast to more measured responses by some of Schumer’s colleagues. At her own Tuesday night town hall, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) dodged an opportunity to call for her party’s leader to step down, instead redirecting her answer toward staving off a continuation of President Trump’s 2017 tax cuts. Still, she made clear she disagreed with his tactic.

“I think Chuck Schumer is wrong,” Warren said, according to the Boston Globe.

Similarly, Jeffries did not answer outright whether he would support Schumer’s removal following last week’s vote. Pelosi, the former House speaker, made a cutting remark of her own.

“I myself don’t give away anything for nothing,” she told Politico.

And Tim Walz, seen as a 2028 presidential contender, took the unusual step last night of asking California Gov. Gavin Newsom to re-record part of his podcast appearance so he could weigh in on Schumer’s retreat shortly after it happened.

“I believe that Chuck 100 percent believes that he made a decision that reduced the pain and the risk to Americans,” the Minnesota governor said on Newsom’s new show, Politico reported. “I see it now that we’re in a point where … that pain is coming anyway and I think we gave up our leverage.”