Overview
- A growing number of House Democrats and progressive groups are publicly urging Chuck Schumer to relinquish Senate leadership after a shutdown deal passed without securing an extension of enhanced ACA premium tax credits.
- Eight Senate Democrats joined Republicans to advance a stopgap bill that reopened the government, trading for a verbal GOP pledge to hold a December vote on the subsidies that remains uncertain.
- Schumer opposed the agreement and voted no, yet critics in his party say he failed to keep the caucus unified during the weeks-long standoff.
- Sen. Chris Murphy called for a caucus discussion and "more effective leadership" but noted that no Senate Democrat has asked Schumer to resign.
- Progressive candidates and activists are turning the episode into a campaign issue, while Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticized the outcome and cast the problem as broader than one leader.