VIDEO: Senate Dem warns party ‘breaking apart’ as colleagues side with Trump’s agenda

November 13, 2025

From Fox News: Amid heated calls by some House Democrats and others in the party to remove Sen. Chuck Schumer from his longtime role as Senate Democratic leader, a top Democrat in the chamber is calling for “more effective leadership.”

Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut told Fox News Digital that Schumer needs to lead a conversation to “stop having a group of members cross over and support Donald Trump’s agenda.”

Murphy was interviewed on Wednesday, two days after seven Senate Democrats and independent Sen. Angus King of Maine, who caucuses with the party, bucked Senate Democratic leaders and voted with the majority Republicans to end the longest federal government shutdown in history.

Plenty of progressives and center-left Democrats have pilloried the deal to end the shutdown, which didn’t include the Democrats’ top priority, an agreement to extend expiring subsidies that make health insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act, known as the ACA or Obamacare, more affordable to millions of Americans.

Murphy lamented that Schumer was not successful in holding the Democrat caucus together, and said, “We’ve got to have a hard conversation as a caucus about what we all need to do, what kind of leadership we need in order to make sure that we don’t continue to break apart.”

Murphy also fretted that “this is the fourth major moment this year where a handful of Democrats have crossed over and voted with Donald Trump.”

Murphy also raged against President Trump and declared that the Democrat Party needs new leadership while speaking at a New Hampshire college event Wednesday evening.

Sen. @ChrisMurphyCT: “The problem is this party has been addicted to incremental change, solutions that aren’t are big as the problems that people face, and it is part of what has made us illegitimate in major parts of this country.” pic.twitter.com/2WYCsdsm1A

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