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Schumer’s grip on New York loosens under Trump 2.0

NEW YORK — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) loose alliance with the Left has begun to unravel as Democratic anger over his government funding vote seeps into his home state.

Schumer is facing the distinct possibility of a primary challenge after he handed Republicans the votes to keep the government open last week, with progressives encouraging Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) to run for his seat when he faces reelection in 2028.

The threat is familiar to Schumer, whose durability in New York politics is based, in part, on his ideological flexibility. He successfully warded off a 2022 challenge with a steady shift to the left that earned him the endorsement of the progressive Working Families Party.

But Schumer has risked lasting damage to that relationship as the Democratic base demands aggressive action to oppose President Donald Trump and his sweeping rollback of the federal government.

Schumer maintains that his funding vote was the better of two bad choices, warning in repeated media appearances that a shutdown would have given Trump even more authority to slash federal jobs and shutter agencies.

Yet the pleas have fallen on deaf ears as a constellation of progressive groups in New York have called on Schumer to step down from leadership, while House Democrats, who stood opposed to the