It isn't just frustrated partisans on social media who think Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and other Democrats need to do more to fight back against President Donald Trump.
The New York Times reported late on Wednesday that Democratic governors gave Schumer an earful about doing more to slow down Trump during what the paper described as a "tense" phone call.
Specifically, the Times reports that Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey told Schumer that "Senate Democrats should not vote for Mr. Trump’s nominees" after his administration put a pause on all federal grants and loans that caused chaos throughout the country earlier this week.
In addition to this, reports the Times, Healey chided Schumer by telling him that "Democratic governors were bearing the brunt of calls from constituents affected by Mr. Trump’s policies while also leading the legal effort to block them."
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And it wasn't just governors of deep-blue states who had sharp words for Schumer.
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, who organized the call with Schumer, demanded that Democrats adopt a "down and dirty" communications strategy to hammer Trump on a daily basis.
Schumer responded to the governors' complaints about not blocking Trump's nominees by saying that he "could not force all Senate Democrats to oppose every Trump nominee but that he could unite the caucus to oppose certain high-profile appointees."
He also argued that "Democrats’ combined outrage over the Trump effort to halt federal government funding to a wide range of schools, hospitals, nonprofits and other groups had been successful and had forced the administration to abandon its plans," reports the Times.
