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To: Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer
Step Down as Minority Leader!
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Trump and the Republican Party are doubling health care premiums, weaponizing our military against us, and ripping food away from children.
We need Democratic leaders who won’t cave, who won’t back down, and who will serve as a forceful opposition party, guarding against the worst of this administration’s attacks and providing a path toward reclaiming our country, democracy, and freedom.
Chuck Schumer is not that leader.
It’s time for Schumer to step down from his post as minority leader and allow for new leadership to emerge—someone who is willing to consistently fight for the American people.
It’s time for Schumer to step down from his post as minority leader and allow for new leadership to emerge—someone who is willing to consistently fight for the American people.
Why is this important?
Democrats made historic gains in the 2026 midterm elections and voters sent a resounding message: We want real change.
By large margins, Democratic voters across the country sent candidates to Washington who will tackle the affordability crisis, stand up to Trump, support Medicare for All, and end monetary support for ICE and Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
We need a Senate leader who will embolden sweeping populist change against the incrementalist, timid, corporate-backed establishment and hold Trump administration officials accountable, and that won’t be Senator Chuck Schumer.
Last year, calls for Schumer to step down as minority leader, including from MoveOn, followed the disastrous decision by eight Democratic senators to vote to reopen the government—with no concessions on the issues that sparked the government shutdown in the first place.
Poll after poll then showed that Americans supported Democrats driving a hard bargain to protect ACA subsidies, and a majority blamed Republicans and President Trump for the shutdown.
But Schumer and Senate Democrats sold the American people out, leaving millions of families left without guarantees of affordable health care through the ACA and sending a message to Trump that his bullying, abuse, and cruelty will go unchecked.
This is not the leadership that the American people want or deserve. And as Democrats take hold of a new majority in the Senate, it’s time for Schumer to allow new leadership to step up in order to listen to and deliver for the people.