Bernie Sanders interrupts Schumer news conference to slam Democratic leadership

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., took over Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer’s information convention on Wednesday and criticized the Democratic Get together for his or her lack of assist within the political races in New York and Maine.

‘Nicely, the social gathering management didn’t assist this [mayoral candidate Zohran] Mamdani in New York,” Sanders mentioned from the Senate podium. “The social gathering management will not be supportive [Senate hopeful Graham] Platner in Maine. And I feel he’ll win… I feel there is a rising realization that management, and defending the established order and the inequities that exist in America, will not be the place the American individuals are.”

Mamdani, a democratic socialist, gained the mayoral race in New York Metropolis and Democrat Mikie Sherrill secured the governorship of New Jersey.

California’s Proposition 50 additionally handed after being positioned on the poll, and Democrats will retain management of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court docket as Justices Christine Donohue, Kevin Dougherty and David Wecht gained their respective retention races.

MAMDANI ACCUSES JOHNSON OF TRYING TO ‘DISTRACT’ AS HOUSE SPEAKER CALLS JEFFRIES’ APPROVAL THE END OF DEMS

Senator Bernie Sanders, an unbiased from Vermont, speaks throughout a press convention on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, November 5, 2025. (Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs)

Earlier than Sanders’ outburst, Schumer, D-N.Y., spoke to reporters, blasting Republicans as the federal government shutdown enters its thirty sixth day, making it the longest shutdown in U.S. historical past.

“Final night time, Republicans felt the political fallout [of the Trump administration’s policies]Schumer mentioned. “It needs to be nothing lower than a five-alarm fireplace for Republicans. Their costly home is on fireplace, and so they have solely themselves accountable. As loudly and clearly as attainable, from one finish of the nation to the opposite, the American individuals mentioned: sufficient is sufficient.”

Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters throughout a information convention on November 5, 2025 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. (Tom Brenner/Getty Photographs)

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SCHUMER QUIET AS VAN HOLLEN ‘SPINELESS’ NY DEMOCRATS ABOUT MAMDANI SNUB

Schumer mentioned he and Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries demanded Wednesday morning that President Donald Trump sit down with them to debate well being care points.

“Final night time was an excellent night time for Democrats and our battle to decrease prices, enhance well being care and obtain a greater future for our nation,” Schumer mentioned. “However extra importantly, final night time was a terrific night time for American households who are actually struggling to make ends meet, because the election has proven that Democrats’ management of the Senate is far nearer than the individuals and prognosticators notice. The extra Republicans increase their prices and bow to Trump, the extra their Senate majority is in jeopardy.”

“… When Chief Jeffries and I met with Donald Trump on the White Home a couple of month in the past, we advised him this was going to occur. We warned him that if he did not do one thing, working with us to fulfill America’s well being care wants, and as an alternative insisting on no negotiations with the Democrats was a recipe for catastrophe for the nation, and it will come again to hang-out them. Final night time ought to have made it clear to Republicans that they cannot not simply us, however the American individuals proceed to disregard, for the nice of the nation as a complete.”

Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries speaks to reporters in regards to the Home of Representatives’ strikes on Day 16 of the federal government shutdown on the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025. (J. Scott Applewhite)

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Democratic leaders have urged Republicans in each the Reasonably priced Care Act Home and Senate to confront the rise in medical insurance premiums tied to the expiration of Reasonably priced Care Act subsidies.

On the similar time, funding for the Supplemental Vitamin Help Program (SNAP) has expired.

Though Republicans have proposed a number of emergency measures, together with a GOP-led invoice that was blocked on Tuesday, Congress has but to succeed in an settlement.