New York Senator Chuck Schumer has been re-elected to guide the caucus for the fifth time
US Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer was unanimously backed by his caucus on Tuesday to proceed his function within the subsequent Congress.
It marks the fifth re-election as social gathering chief for Schumer, a 74-year-old New York senator, who has led the Democrats within the higher chamber since 2016. Subsequent 12 months, nevertheless, he’ll head the minority social gathering after Republicans managed to unseat a handful of senators and take a vacant seat, securing a 53-strong majority.
Schumer mentioned he was “honored and humbled” by the belief positioned in him by his colleagues to guide them “throughout this important interval for our nation.” Schumer pledged to work with Republicans each time potential.
“As I’ve lengthy mentioned, our choice is to safe bipartisan options wherever potential and search for methods to collaborate with our Republican colleagues to assist working households,” he mentioned in a press release posted on Meta’s Threads social media platform.
“Nevertheless, our Republican colleagues ought to make no mistake about it, we’ll all the time rise up for our values,” he added with out elaborating.
The announcement appeared to obtain a combined response at greatest, with quite a few Threads customers flocking to Schumer’s thread to vent their anger. The discontented customers accused the senator of being unable to supply the Democratic caucus with sturdy sufficient management and urged him to step down earlier than he leads “us over one other cliff.”
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