Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries seek to defuse tensions after shutdown clash and refocus on Trump's agenda

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : For his part, Schumer heralded the Jeffries event on protecting Medicaid.
59% : "Look, winning in 2026 -- in the House and Senate, which would stop Trump once and for all -- is vitally important.
58% : "And I'll tell you one thing: we are totally united in one thing -- many things -- but one thing above all, we are united in going after Trump and showing the American people that he is making the middle class pay for the tax cuts on the rich," Schumer said on "The View."
46% : "Today, we're doing it on Medicaid.
41% : But Indivisible has no intention of surrendering to Trump, Musk, and congressional Republicans," Indivisible co-executive director Ezra Levin said in a statement on Saturday.
29% : The remarks from the pair of New York Democrats indicates that they are prepared to agree to disagree on last week's shutdown showdown, now that Trump has signed the bill into law, and link arms to focus on the battle ahead.
20% : Jeffries maintained that "as House Democrats, we stand by our decision to oppose the Republican spending bill, because the partisan Republican spending bill that was not negotiated with Democrats, it was written by Donald Trump and House Republicans would hurt families, hurt veterans and hurt seniors.

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