Today is Friday, March 14, 2025. Today the outrage is not directed toward the incompetent fool in the White House but the ranking Democrat in the Senate, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who caved in the continuing fight to pass a horrendous budget bill designed to gut critical social safety programs like Medicaid and to give Dump and his true Vice President, Elon Muskrat, the power to slash more federal programs. Schumer and other Democrats helped clear a passage for the bill in the Senate just moments before a Friday afternoon deadline. Now other Democrats who didn’t support the continuing resolution are asking for Schumer’s resignation. This last-minute end to a possible government shutdown is covered in an online CNN article by Morgan Rimmer, Veronica Stracqualursi, and Sarah Ferris entitled “Congress averts government shutdown after Senate passes stopgap funding bill.”

Senate Democrats came under intense pressure to oppose the Chump-backed bill, and for me, I’m intensely disappointed in this party that has not shown any fight in this worsening situation. They still remain divided and seem disorganized and timid in the shadow of this assault against our democracy being driven by a domestic terrorist from within. This budget fight just demonstrates how weak Democrats still are almost two months into this illiberal administration. Thus Senate Minority Leader Schumer and others are facing backlash after they assisted in clearing a path for the bill’s passage.

“Some 90 minutes before Senate Republicans staved off a shutdown on a nearly party-line vote, Schumer and nine others crossed the aisle to advance it in a procedural vote – despite intensifying pressure from their caucus to sink it outright.”

In his defense, Schumer said that his party had only bad options when it came to shutting down the government – possibly for months. However accepting this horrendous bill, Democrats claim, would result in spending cuts to programs like veterans’ health care or Washington, D.C., firefighters and police.

“I believe it is the best way to minimize the harm that the Trump administration will do to the American people,” Schumer argued in defense of his disloyal decision to clear a pathway for the bill’s passage.

When receiving word of Schumer’s loyalty to him, the madman of a president actually praised the rat for supporting the measure, telling reporters after the vote, “I appreciate Senator Schumer, and I think he did the right thing, really. I’m very impressed by that.” All I can say is that if you’re in a fight to the death, you don’t want to receive any accolades from the enemy, in this case, Donald J. Dump. So Schumer should really reconsider his stewardship of the party; he’s been around since the early 80s and I think it’s time he considers retiring: he’s 74 years old.

Ultimately, the Senate voted 54-46 to approve the stopgap bill to fund the government through September 30. The other Democratic turncoats were Senators Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Angus King, a Maine Independent who caucuses with the party, and just one Republican – can you believe it? – Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky who is a huge MAGA megaphone but not this time for some strange reason.

Angry voters have been flooding senators’ offices with calls urging them to block the bill and take on Dump for his dismantling of the federal government. Now many Democrats feel that Schumer failed the test of pushing back against Drumpf and his illegal actions against the government.

Senate Democrats are now grappling with how to move forward as a caucus after the government funding bill split their party. Sadly, as always a party riven by discord. We certainly don’t need this in the wake of the alarming threat posed by Dump and his goons. We need a unified party focused on getting the message out that Dump and his billionaire pal, Muskrat, are ransacking the federal government.

And so it went!