Local Congress members stop short of calling for new Senate leadership<\/p>\n
Some House Members in the Democratic Party have directed some of their outrage at Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York. Although he voted against the shutdown deal, critics have deemed him ineffective<\/a>.<\/p>\n U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna, D-California, called on Sunday night for Schumer to step down from leadership<\/a>. Since then, U.S. Reps. Seth Moulton<\/a>, D-Massachusetts, Rashida Tlaib<\/a>, D-Michigan, and Delia Ramirez<\/a>, D-Illinois, have joined Khanna in pushing for new Democratic leadership in the Senate.<\/p>\n Scanlon said she\u2019s not privy to the closed-door conversations in the Senate.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m pleased that Sen. Schumer voted against the deal, as I understand that he did, but is the outcome what I would like? No,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Dean also said she\u2019s not interested in questioning Schumer\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat I am interested in is what has happened here,\u201d Dean said. \u201cFolks have figured out what Donald Trump is doing. As I said to the speaker, Donald Trump is unhinged. He is unwell. He\u2019s also not working. He\u2019s down at Mar-a-Lago throwing Gatsby parties when he\u2019s not amputating the East Wing recklessly, without thought.\u201d<\/p>\n She said she wants members of the public to refocus their lens.<\/p>\n \u201cLet\u2019s focus on what matters to the American people,\u201d Dean said. \u201cGet them health care they can afford. Get prices down and bring some sort of decency back to this White House.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local Congress members stop short of calling for new Senate leadership Some House Members in the Democratic Party…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[19352,1014,69,71,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-30511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-aca","9":"tag-government-shutdown","10":"tag-philadelphia","11":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","12":"tag-philadelphia-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}