During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Wednesday morning, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was called out by co-host Joe Scarborough over criticism from his fellow Democrats that he and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) are failing to stand up to Donald Trump.
With Schumer on to provide a postmortem of Trump's abrasive address before both chambers of Congress on Tuesday night and, after Schumer praised the Democratic response from Sen . Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), the MSNBC host pointed out the rumblings about his performance as the Democratic leader in the Senate.
'We came in with a clip of [late night host] Stephen Colbert telling Democrats 'do something.' We've had other people on this show, Democrats being critical, saying that you and Hakeem Jeffries and other Democratic leaders on the Hill aren't doing enough. First of all, respond to those criticisms from other Democrats, and also let us know what is your plan? What can you do being in the minority?"
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"Well, let me tell you our plan, which is a very good plan, the plan is to organize," the New York Democrat offered.
"The most important thing you can do is to protest is organizing," he continued. "It's not easy, but the American people are rising to the cause. So I had a call set up with our major activists in New York state, you know, lots of them. I thought about 500 people would get on the call. 3000 did."
"And here's what we decided to do on the issues that so affect Americans; the cuts to Medicaid, Social Security, the tariffs," he reported. "We're going to focus on the six Republican Congress members in New York state. As you know, the margin is so small in the House that only two would change, only two votes, two people changing their vote would help us win some of those fights."
"We're getting other senators to go after Republican senators in their own states," he added. "The best way to do this is organize, because their actual program is so unpopular and so bad for the American people. I believe organizing has a very good chance of succeeding –– that's the answer that I have. That's the answer Hakeem is doing in the House and it is the best way to protest the horrible things that Trump is doing."
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