Indivisible Calls on Schumer to Step Aside

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Mar 15, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Yesterday, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer surrendered leverage in the Senate, paving the way for a GOP funding bill that jeopardizes critical programs and accelerates the efforts of Trump, Musk and congressional Republicans to dismantle entire agencies and gut public services. Today, Indivisible met with leaders of our movement, both in New York and across the country, to discuss what this means for the fight to save our democracy. Based on those conversations, Ezra Levin, Co-Executive Director of Indivisible issued the following statement:

“The passage of this dangerous Republican funding bill is a travesty. The ongoing administrative coup led by Donald Trump and Elon Musk is a constitutional crisis. The authoritarians stripping away our rights and trying to loot the government to enrich the billionaires are a five-alarm fire. Indivisibles across the country have been organizing furiously to fight back - that’s where they want to focus. Yesterday, Chuck Schumer gravely undermined their work.

“After weeks of constituents demanding that Democrats use this rare, precious point of leverage on the government funding bill, Schumer did the opposite. He led the charge to wave the white flag of surrender. But Indivisible has no intention of surrendering to Trump, Musk, and congressional Republicans.

“This is why today, we called two emergency meetings of Indivisible group leaders for groups in New York, and for the 1,600 local Indivisible groups nationwide. In a vote, the two groups gave us clear direction: 82% of group leaders in New York and 91% of Indivisible group leaders nationwide voted to call for Schumer to step aside as Senate Minority Leader. Accordingly, Indivisible is calling for Chuck Schumer to step down from Senate Democratic leadership. We thank him for his service, but we need new leadership in this moment and we understand to get there we need a chorus of support for change.

https://indivisible.org/statements/indivisible-calls-schumer-step-aside

When you look at the political landscape, it is clear Americans are stepping up.

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1. I am going to join Indivisible

Indivisible was organizing town halls all across the country and was changing the narrative against Krasnov, momentum was building and then Schumer kneecapped them.

Hoping that the 9 Democratic Senators plus one Independent get out and do town halls to explain what they did.

I will definitely go to a Fetterman town hall no matter where he holds it in Pa.

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2. The town halls are key.

Especially now that we know Republican leadership wants them shut down for their side.

My hope is we expose corruption and its roots, the lobbyists and their top leaders..Musk, Bezos etc.


We must communicate that we will untie ourselves from this trainwreck that has absorbed our democracy.

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3. Yes, Indivisible is proving to be one of America's strongest defenses against fascism.

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4. Suppose Schumer did step aside? Who would replace him?

I know the party would vote, but five of the people who are the top Democratic Senate leadership voted for the Republican CR—Schumer, Durbin, Cortez-Masto, Gillibrand, and Schatz.

The remaining too Democratic leaders who did not vote for the CR are Klobuchar, Booker, Warren, Warner, Sanders, Baldwin, and Murphy. I think Booker, Warren, Sanders, and Murphy would be strong, but would they have the support?

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5. There could easily be a power struggle, but lets have it now while the public

pressure is so great,...I doubt those who voted with Schumer would be brazen enough to keep bucking what the voters want.

But if they do want more of the same, then we should know sooner rather than later as we get ready for 2026.