‘It’s Time For You To Go’: CBS Anchors Tell Chuck Schumer Point-Blank His Party No Longer Trusts His Leadership

“CBS Mornings” hosts confronted Democrat Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer Tuesday on his own party’s lack of trust and faith in his leadership.

Schumer enraged many of his fellow Democrats by supporting the GOP government funding bill to avoid a shutdown, prompting many to question his future leadership in the party. CBS News hosts Gayle King and Tony Dokoupil pressed the Senate leader on his party’s own opposition and on whether he should step aside.

“Let me explain why a shutdown is terrible,” Schumer said. “People ought to know that. The executive branch, in this case Musk, DOGE … who have no concern for working people would have the sole power to determine what opens and what closes. They determine what is essential. You can’t go to court. So on day two, get rid of SNAP and food for hungry kids, it’s not essential. Day 4, get rid of mass transit aid, let New York City do it. Not essential. Cut back on Medicaid and healthcare. Within two weeks, everyone would have been howling. Furthermore, it’s even worse. It has no offramp. Guess who determines when we leave the shutdown? The Republicans.”

Dokoupil then asked about the Democrats’ lack of action to stand against the Trump administration’s agenda.

“Senator, the leader in question, that is actually what people are debating right now. There are people in your party that don’t want you to be a leader in the party anymore and it’s a question of what is this moment and what does it require?” Dokoupil said, before branching off into a question about the Trump administration’s objections to a federal judge’s deportation ruling.