Schumer Apparently No Longer Cares If Trump Fires Feds During A Shutdown

The defense of the chief of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, to join the Republicans to finance the government in March could return to Hanter while the Democrats Careen towards a closure despite the consequences of large -scale for the even Americans that he had previously supported would suffer from a term of funding.

The White House and Budget Management Office (OMB) published a memo on Wednesday evening to identify the identification agencies for employees and government programs that could be dismissed during a government closure, increasing the costs of a closure for Democrats. Despite the prospects for mass layoffs which seem to justify Schumer’s concern about the government’s closure in March, the main democrat shows no sign that he will join the Republicans to finance the government while the party’s left base requires a fight with the president. (Related: Fetterman tells the Democrats to stop back on Kimmel and worry about the closure of Schumer “ chaos ”)

“Donald Trump has dismissed federal workers since the first day – not to govern, but to scare,” wrote Schumer in an article on the social media platform X Thursday. “It’s not new and has nothing to do with the funding of the government.”

“These unnecessary layoffs will either be canceled in court, or the administration will eventually recruit workers, just as they did as recently as this week,” continued Schumer.

Schumer’s relatively cool response to the aggressive reduction plans of the White House is clearly different from his serious concern in March on the actions that Trump’s White House could theoretically take during a closure.

The MEMB memo has said that employees who are in programs that do not have a current source of financing or who do not line up with administration priorities could see permanent job shortcuts during the closure. This reduction in the federal government’s workforce would be added to temporary leave that generally occurs during a government closure.

Schumer led a small cohort of democrats to advance a draft GOP expenses and prevent a period of time in the financing of the government, triggering an intraparty fight with the best Democrats, including the minority head of the Hakeem Jeffries Chamber. Schumer, however, argued that the costs of a government closure won over his own political counts.

“”The damage they [the Trump administration] Can be done under a closure is much worse than any other damage they could do, “said Schumer to the New York Times in an interview following his substantial decision to approve the March expenditure bill.” This can last forever. There is no ramp out of the ramp.

The main democrat also told the Wall Street Journal that diving in a closure of the government would give the president and then the president of the Elon Musk government’s efficiency “a blow – or five blood stroke – to destroy huge parts of the government”.

The congress is faced with a deadline of September 30 to avoid a closure, which seems more and more likely when the Democrats of the Senate refuse to support a financing plan of the chamber offered by the Republicans to temporarily finance the government. No meeting is planned between Trump and the best democrats before the imminent deadline.

Schumer has promised to oppose government financing bills which do not include more than a billion of dollars of Democratic Party policy in exchange for their votes. Democrats demanded a permanent extension of the expiration of the health subsidies of the affordable care law of the Biden era and a complete repeal of the recent reforms of the MEDICAID GOP, which are both non-states for the Republicans of the Congress.

The head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, told CNN on Wednesday that the Republicans would not allow Schumer to hold the government “hostage” with unrelated health care requests.

The draft laws of financing of the government must obtain democratic support in the Senate due to the legislative threshold of 60 voting from the upper House. Almost all of the Senate Democrats blocked a “clean” stopgap measure to temporarily finance the government until November 21 at current financing levels on Friday.

Democrats have struggled to specify what they oppose in the expense bill when they are in a hurry by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Washington, DC-September 18: Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) (C) (C) leads a press conference with Senator (LR) Alex Padilla (D-CA), the head of the Senate Minority Charles Schumer (D-DY) and senator Tina Smith to present the law on political enemies at the American Capitol on September 18, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo of Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)

Schumer’s reversal on the costs of a government closure for democrats is not the only area of ​​hypocrisy that the Republicans have identified in the current funding confrontation.

The Republicans also highlighted the previous opposition of Democrats to threaten to close the government for unrelated health care legislation.

“There is a time and a place to debate health care, just as there is a time and a place to debate energy policy, immigration and education – but not when the funding of the federal government and all the lives that are affected by IT are suspended in balance,” said Sen. Chris Murphy Democrat if the Democrats did not agree for having reprimanded Obamacare.

Murphy, one of the president’s most vocal criticism in the upper room, changed his melody in the current closure fight.

“We have to defend people whose life would be ruined by these massive health care premiums, then that we have no moral obligation to pay the destruction invoices of democracy,” Murphy told Stephen Colbert Murphy on Wednesday. “So, if this budget does not decrease at least some of the serious damage which is caused by the rule of law, the Democrats have no obligation to support it.”

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