Journalist Mark Halperin is not impressed with what he is seeing from Democrat leaders Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer.
If this is any indication of how most of the public feels, and it probably is, Trump should stick to his guns on the shutdown. Jeffries and Schumer are useless, even to their own party.
Note that Halperin says they aren’t even getting the usual level of support from the media, which is very telling.
The Daily Caller has details:
Political analyst Mark Halperin on “The Morning Meeting” Friday named Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries his “losers of the week” amid the ongoing government shutdown.
Schumer and Jeffries met with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Monday to discuss a short-term spending bill to prevent a government shutdown, but they did not reach an agreement. Halperin said during his show’s “losers of the week” segment that neither the media nor Democrats had confidence in Schumer and Jeffries.
“Never in my career have I seen two leaders so dismissed, not just by the media, which normally loves Democrats, but privately by Democratic members of the House and Senate,” Halperin said. “People are just rolling their eyes and throwing their hands up and saying, ‘There’s nothing we can do. We’re not going to depose them now, but they are not leading us’ in the view of Democrats saying that ‘they’re not leading through this confrontation.’”
“I’ve never seen the senior Democrats in both chambers — or Republicans — I’ve never seen attitude like this,” he added.
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— Jason Cohen (@JasonJournoDC) October 3, 2025
This shutdown is going to completely backfire on Schumer and Democrats.
Schumer Shutdown Rumor
The Democrats continue to hold America hostage, as they attempt to save Senator Schumer from getting primaried by AOC.
Rumor is that “Russ the Reaper” is going to roll back government size by 10%, taking it to 2019 levels pre-Biden at day 66.
— Brenden Dilley (@WarlordDilley) October 7, 2025
Schumer is using a playbook that is outdated by at least a decade and Jeffries is completely unimpressive as Minority House Leader.
They are going to lose this battle.