Schumer and Jeffries Refuse to Back Growing Democratic Calls to Defund ICE

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112. Leaders lead.

They aren't just vote counters or consensus builders. They are people that have been elected because they have the trust of their caucus.

This is especially true of minority leaders, as they are not integral to agenda setting and have only minor procedural hard power.

There was a time when Nancy Pelosi told her caucus how it was going to be (even if some people here on DU did not agree with her) on there being no impeachment vote [yet] for Trump. This was a call she made. This was leadership. It made some in her caucus angry.

Jeffries is adrift. Schumer is asleep.

Yesterday or the day before I read that Elizabeth Warren was on the phone with Trump talking about credit card rates being capped. This is an issue that isn't coming from leadership, though I will quickly concede that Senators are known to buck leadership more frequently than their House counterparts.

But, again, Renee Nicole Good was shot dead on camera, from multiple angles in front of us, and the administration contemptuously lied about it to try to 'get ahead of the narrative'.

Our leaders, in my opinion, should be making clear the absurdity of the admin's position. Instead of statements and compromise, they should stare into the cameras and say her name and ask Americans if this is what they want.