Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks on Capitol Hill on October 29, 2025. Kylie Cooper/Reuters

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer went out of his way to embody the anger of his Democratic base during this fall’s funding showdown with Republicans — an intentional turnaround from his capitulation in March that turned him into a villain in his own party.

He’s still taking the blame from many in his party anyway.

Despite voting against the final deal on Monday night, the New York Democrat is again being pummeled by vocal Democrats across the party, who argue he allowed his centrist members to strike a deal with the GOP that fails to prevent spiking health care costs for tens of millions of Americans.

In the immediate aftermath of the deal, many of his own Senate Democrats were m

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