Schumer's 'cave'? Shutdown deal puts spotlight on Dem leader

Posted: Monday, January 22, 2018 1:17 pm | Updated: 1:36 pm, Mon Jan 22, 2018.

Schumer's 'cave'? Shutdown deal puts spotlight on Dem leader Associated Press | 0 comments

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans tried to make Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer the face of the government shutdown. Now, he's becoming the face of the Democratic retreat.

For two days, Schumer, perhaps the most powerful Democrat in Washington, succeeded in keeping his party unified in a bid to use the government funding fight to push for protections for some 700,000 young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children. But as the shutdown moved into its third day, the New York Democrat and his party buckled as several Democrats backed a deal to end the shutdown in exchange for a Republican pledge to address the immigration debate in the near future.

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