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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 04:30:50 -0500
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For those who don’t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and 
their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week’s worth of network 
and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of 
what you may have missed.

Sunday morning saw a lot of Democrats attempting to do damage control in the 
wake of Friday’s continuing resolution passing — which will keep the federal 
government funded through September — despite the vast majority of the party 
voting in favor of shutting down the government.

The most recent NBC News poll is not likely to assuage any fears regarding 
the chaos within the Democratic Party, especially since the survey was taken 
days before Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) agreed to support the 
CR, thus avoiding a government shutdown that would have been attributed to 
his party. In that poll, Democrats hit a new all-time low approval rating 
with just 27% having a “positive view” of the party and just 7% saying they 
had a “very positive view” of Democrats. To make matters worse, the poll also 
indicated that Democratic voters would prefer to see the party fighting 
against Trump more — fueling Democrats who opposed Schumer’s decision to back 
the CR.

On ABC News’ “This Week,” former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman 
Donna Brazile kicked off the conversation with a deflection and argued that 
it was the Republicans who had no cohesive strategy — despite the passage of 
the CR being touted as a massive victory for House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-
LA).

When asked to respond to Schumer’s support for the CR — and the ensuing 
“massive blowback,” Brazile opted to first attack Republicans instead.

“Congressional Republicans have a strategy. They want to pass the Trump 
agenda no matter how reckless it is. They want to pass the — I mean, make 
sure all of his cabinet people are secured and later on, his tax cuts. They 
have a strategy, we know it. It’s radical. It’s reckless. It’s producing all 
kind of uncertainty with the markets, Main Street, Wall Street upset,” 
Brazile complained before pivoting to argue that the Democrats should have 
been more prepared for the fight over the CR: “But where’s the Democratic 
strategy?”

	“Congressional Republicans have a strategy … It's radical. It's 
	reckless. It's producing all kind of uncertainty with the markets, 
	Main Street, Wall Street upset,” former DNC chair @DonnaBrazile says.
	
	“But where's the Democratic strategy?” pic.twitter.com/1SVBmGiJia

	— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) March 16, 2025

Former Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus agreed with 
Brazile’s assessment of the Democrats, adding, “The Democrats have had two 
horrific weeks.”

“They’ve got no leader. They’ve got no movement. The only thing they’ve got 
is ‘Trump derangement syndrome.’ It’s the only thing that brings them 
together,” he said.

	“The Democrats have had two horrific weeks,” former RNC chair @Reince 
	says.

	“They've got no leader. They've got no movement. The only thing 
	they've got is 'Trump derangement syndrome.' It's the only thing 
	that brings them together.” https://t.co/U24qIvgdNO 
	pic.twitter.com/TnAy0T0wxr

	— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) March 16, 2025

The Washington Post’s Marianna Sotomayor noted that House Minority Leader 
Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) had not supported the CR, leading to what she referred 
to as a “trust deficit” between Jeffries and Schumer over apparently 
differing strategies.

Sotomayor explained that while Jeffries was not one to publicly criticize 
Schumer, the fact that he was not taking questions on the topic was a 
criticism of sorts. “There is tension,” she said. “Hill Democrats are 
divided. They — House Democrats really felt like they had to respond to the 
base, not just the liberal activist base, but a very angry Democratic voting 
base.”

“The fact that Schumer took so long to make a decision — that really 
alienated and upset a lot of Democratic senators — and now there is this 
division,” she added. “There is a trust deficit now between the leaders.”

	WaPo’s @MariannaReports says Democrats on Capitol Hill are “divided” 
	over how Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer handled the government 
	funding bill.

	“There is a trust deficit now between the leaders.” 
	https://t.co/q3KfgfZZTA pic.twitter.com/otmBrS8dD3

	— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) March 16, 2025

On CBS News, “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan spoke with Rep. Debbie 
Dingell (D-MI) about the disarray within her party — and Dingell was slightly 
less reserved than minority leader Jeffries in her criticisms of Schumer.

Dingell accused Schumer of “sending out mixed signals” with regard to whether 
or not he would support the CR, saying that the people she had talked to in 
recent days had preferred risking a shutdown to allowing the Republican CR to 
pass. “We have got to be united as Democrats,” she said, adding that her 
party needed to be prepared to push back during the upcoming budget 
reconciliation process.

	Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) says Sen. Chuck Schumer, the Senate 
	minority leader, sent "mixed signals" about the measure to avert 
	a government shutdown, which Schumer and several other Democratic 
	senators ultimately supported.

	She says "people are angry," but "we've got to move… 
	pic.twitter.com/anoD3qRiJc

	— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) March 16, 2025

Dingell went on to say that the constituents she’d spoken to wanted Democrats 
to fight back harder against the Trump administration and, in particular, 
cuts that were being made at his direction and through the Department of 
Government Efficiency (DOGE).

“People are scared … they want to see Democrats fighting back,” Dingell said. 
“My town halls look like a Republican town hall. I’m not taking it 
personally. They want to see us do something.”

	"People are scared" about the Trump administration’s cuts to the 
	federal government and services, and "they want to see Democrats 
	fighting back," says Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI).

	"My town halls look like a Republican town hall. I'm not taking it 
	personally," she adds.

	"They… pic.twitter.com/OEDwRSxbT9

	— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) March 16, 2025

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) helped to perpetuate the division during her 
appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union,” where she lashed out at Senator 
John Fetterman (D-PA) for his criticisms of an influencer’s hype video in 
which she’d appeared.

“He’s not the one to talk about anything,” she told anchor Jake Tapper before 
pivoting to mock Fetterman’s appearance. “I mean this is a guy that doesn’t 
seemingly want to own a suit, I’m not really sure. But I don’t show up in 
hoodies when I’m going on the floor, and so the idea that you would say that 
we could not have a moment in which — an influencer asked us to do this. Now, 
I’ll be perfectly honest with you, and tell you that when she asked me to 
jump, I said, ‘Did you ask my older colleagues to do this? Because I feel 
like you’re picking on me because my knees are a little younger.'”

	Speaking to @jaketapper, @RepJasmine hits back at Sen. Fetterman 
	after he mocked Democrats' strategy to counter Trump: "He's not the 
	one to talk about anything." pic.twitter.com/R1r421Msro

	— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) March 16, 2025

A panel that rounded out the CNN Sunday morning broadcast also delved into 
what is apparently quickly becoming a civil war among Democrats.

Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) attempted to spin off into a discussion complaining 
about President Trump and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, but Tapper 
stopped her and put her back on course.

Stevens began by praising Schumer’s past actions and Jeffries’ leadership, 
but then Tapper pressed her, asking whether Schumer was the right leader for 
the Democrats in the Senate at this particular moment. “I don’t think we 
should be talking about that and giving Trump any more wins,” was her reply.

Ashley Etienne, who previously worked as the communications director for 
former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) advised the party to “get out of the 
way” and let Trump “prove” that he is capable of fixing the economy. She then 
indicated that she was certain he’d fail, citing recent ups and downs in the 
stock market as proof that Trump’s policies would ultimately crash the 
economy.

Republican commentator Scott Jennings kicked off his comments with a jab at 
Democrats, saying that Schumer had helped to defeat the “racist Jim Crow 
filibuster” — which Democrats campaigned to eliminate until they wanted to 
use it against Trump. “I think he deserves a lot of credit this morning.”

“As Republicans this week, we have overdosed on popcorn watching this 
Democrat civil war,” Republican strategist Brad Todd added.

	.@BradOnMessage: "As Republicans this week, we have overdosed on 
	popcorn watching this Democrat civil war."@RepHaleyStevens, 
	@ScottJenningsKY, and @AshleyEtienne09 join @jaketapper on the 
	fallout from the shutdown fight, Democratic infighting, and the 
	politics of Trump's… pic.twitter.com/gbzIoR6Wmw

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