Come on Chuckie! It’s rather a bold statement just 40 days into a new administration but do you really think digging your feet into the ground and being an obstructionist is gonna help the DEM come 2018? – PB/TK
Schumer: Dems Are Done With Trump –
WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer pledged to give President Donald Trump a chance before his fellow New Yorker took the oath of office. But after 40 days, Schumer says he’s about through with the blustery commander in chief.
“It’s changed,” Schumer told The Huffington Post Tuesday shortly before Trump addressed a joint session of Congress.
“Trump, instead of doing where his campaign was, which was against both establishments, Democratic and Republican, so there might be some areas of common ground, has moved so far to the right that I don’t see any place we can work with him,” Schumer said. “He’s not even talking about infrastructure, he’s not talking about trade.”
When Schumer initially said he’d look for places to work with Trump, the then-president-elect had certainly alarmed most Democrats ― but some still hoped Trump would moderate on some issues, or at least make good on pledges that Democrats like Schumer liked, such as investing in infrastructure.
But since then, Trump has stood by his hard-line stances. And millions of Americans across the country have come out in droves to protest.
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