In interview, the Senate minority leader said intraparty critics underestimated the dangers of a funding lapse.

Democrats’ blowup over funding the government isn’t just triggering a fight about the future of the party. It is reopening old wounds they had hoped to move past, too. After an ultimately unsuccessful effort to eliminate the filibuster during former President Joe Biden’s term roiled Democrats,

A growing number of Democratic Party politicians, strategists and consultants are signaling anger against Sen. Chuck Schumer after he supported a Republican spending bill.

Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, continued to face criticism from members of his own party after he reversed course and allowed the stopgap spending bill to come to a vote.

The liberal organizing group Indivisible said Saturday it was calling for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to step down from his leadership role, the latest fallout after he backed a GOP bill to keep the government open.