The three planned events of the planned books of the Senate leader Chuck Schumer scheduled for this week were abruptly postponed on Monday morning due to “security concerns.”
Schumer, promoting his new book “Anti -Semitism in the United States: a warning”, faced a violent reaction about the vote of the Government Financing Law approved by the Chamber that avoided a closure on Friday. With the help of the Democrats, the Senate approved the Stopgap bill hours before the funds were scheduled.
Many Democrats, including the progressives, had wanted him to vote against the bill and protest more against the agendas of President Donald Trump and the Republicans of the Congress.
Schumer had planned events in Baltimore, New York and Washington, DC, this week. Protests were planned outside the three events.
A spokesman for Schumer’s Book Tour told ABC News that “due to security concerns, Senator Schumer’s books are being reprogrammed.”
The Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, offers a television interview, at the Washington Capitol on March 14, 2025.
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Some of the hosts of Schumer’s events, including the DC bookstore policy and the Baltimore Library, also individually, also individually cited security concerns For cancellation.
Schumer has faced a strong criticism of his own party for voting for the Financing Law.
After announcing that it would not be a vote on the proposed expenses plan, a decision that could have led to a government closure, Schumer later said from the floor that he would vote for yes.
The switch earned Trump’s praise, but the anger of prominent democrats, and occurs when the party struggles to set up a cohesive response to the actions of the Trump administration that are reforming the federal government, the immigration policy and other key issues.
Schumer, defending his decision to vote for the financing bill, said in a speech on the Senate floor on Thursday that although he did not approve what was included in a financing bill, a government closure would be worse.
The leader of the Senate minority said that a closure would give Trump and Elon Musk, who have supervised the great cuts to the federal government, more power to make decisions about what to cut, and that the closure would cause pain to US families.
Elon Musk leaves Air Force One on his return to Washington at the Andrews joint base in Maryland, on March 17, 2025.
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“For Donald Trump, a closure would be a gift. It would be the best distraction he could ask for his horrible schedule,” said Schumer.
In an appearance of CNN on Friday, Schumer framed the decision as a way of protecting the Democratic Party, while minimizing the disagreement intraparted on the path he took.
“My work as a leader is to direct the game,” said Schumer. “And if there will be danger in the near future, to protect the party. And I am proud to have done it. I knew I did the right thing, and I knew there would be some disagreements. This is how it always is.”
Schumer also denied any hint that did not have the “overwhelming support” of his caucus, suggesting that the members had thanked him for his post.
President Donald Trump talks to journalists aboard Air Force One on his return to Washington, on March 16, 2025.
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Among the groups that had been organizing the protests of the events of the Schumer’s book tour was the Campaign Committee Progressive Pac (PCCC), which he wrote in an email on Sunday, “we need to give an example of Schumer and send a message to all the Democratic officials that we want Backbone.”
“Now is the time to channel public anger, not hiding from it,” said PCCC co -founder Adam Green, ABC News on Monday after the events were postponed. “People take the Democrats who do not have a plan to fight Trump.”
Another important democratic aligned group, the indivisible project, asked Schumer to be put aside as the leader of the Senate Democrats In a statement on Saturday. Indivisible had has also been planning about protesting out of the Baltimore event.
Schumer “led the burden to shake the white flag of surrender,” wrote the indivisible co-executive director Ezra Levin in the statement.
The leader of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, speaks with journalists at the United States Capitol on March 14, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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Levin praised Schumer for his work in the Senate, but said his actions had failed both the United States and the Democratic Party.
“Senator Schumer has contributed and led to many important achievements for which indivisible is grateful. But with our democracy at stake, he leaves us, the country and the democratic party … Senator Schumer should be put aside as a leader. Each Democrat in the Senate should ask to do so, and start making plans for the new leadership immediately,” Levin wrote.
Controversy also occurs when recent surveys show Americans who feel disappointed towards the Democratic Party. A NBC news survey Posted on Sunday (but taken before government financing vote) they found that only 27% of registered voters feel favorable about the party.
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