What did Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer just do?

Were you Fully Informed of the Key Facts, Regarding the Continuing Budget Resolution, on the Billionaire-Controlled, Network TV News? Check out BSky.app & Compare to what you Learn from TV News about What's Going on in Washington, D.C.

Updated March 15, 2025 vs 3.14.25 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.

An excellent example of billionaire-controlled, Network TV News priorities / manipulations, was on full display this month. An American college student gone missing on Spring break in the Dominican Republic, seemed to get - as much, if not more airtime and 'investigative coverage' - than the budget negotiations between Republicans and Democrats.

TV News 'The' Disinformation Medium. Ask yourself WHY this particular missing college student has become such a HUGE Network TV News story, when 600,000 people go missing in the U.S. every year? Are the billionaire controlled Network News outlets trying to distract their viewers from what's going on in Washington, D.C. by giving the truly important stories less airtime while filling up their broadcasts with sensational horror stories?

The budget negotiations included a huge transfer of federally elected representatives' power [aka your power] from the legislative branch to the executive branch of government, as well as cuts of tens of billions of dollars to previously approved federal programs.

So, ask yourself, which of these news stories is of more concern to you? Which of these stories of more actionable by you? And which of these stories appears to be what might be a tragic human interest story, used by billionaire controlled Network TV News, as a ratings chasing headline / audience distraction?

CLICK here to view the rest of our report on how Chuck Schumer abandons the Democrats [own party], and leads a rebel contingent of Senators including NYS Senator Gillebrand to vote in favor of Trump and the Republicans, on the Continuing Budget Resolution of March 2025.

According to a February 24, 2025 Center on Budget Policies and Priorities report, " ... The Administration is withholding funding appropriated by Congress and relied on by individuals and families, cities and states, schools, and many others. These actions fundamentally challenge the appropriations process ... Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution assigns Congress the power to determine federal spending through appropriations legislation.

One aspect of that congressional authority is a long-standing principle that agencies are supposed to make full use of the appropriations they receive. If the President decides that certain appropriations should not be used, the proper response is to request that Congress rescind the excess. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 affirmed these principles ...".

"... Sen. Patty Murray, the ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, estimated that as of February 15 at least $396 billion of appropriated funding was being withheld. That funding covered clean water infrastructure; roads, bridges, and transit; medical research; high-speed broadband; and National Park staffing and maintenance, to give just some examples. In addition, the Administration has been summarily firing large numbers of federal employees paid with appropriated funds, whichis likely to lead to reduced services to the public ... The Washington Post recently noted that Republican senators have been asking Administration officials “to release funds they themselves appropriated” and to reverse cuts to programs benefitting their states. By effectively taking away the “power of the purse” from Congress, the President has stripped members of their key constitutional authority, severely weakening their position in any negotiation with the White House ...".

Senator Schumer Flip Flop. In the graphic of the Schumer post above, Chuck tells his followers that what the Republicans are doing to the budgeting process is all wrong. Less than a few days later, Schumer rounds up enough other Democrats to vote in favor of what he just told us was all wrong. There are historic examples of similar appeasements by weak leaders in the face of resolute ones.

Let it be known, that the loss of funding will be especially true for Democratic States, unless they completely capitulate to Trump, like NYC Mayor Adams appears to have done. Note that the two senators from New York voted in favor of the Republican drafted bill, which as Schumer notes in his post above, included ZERO input from the Democrats. All Democrats in the House, save one from Maine [Golden], voted against the continuing resolution - arguing not for a shutdowm, but rather for a one month extension instead - to provide Democrats with an opportunity to participate in the legislative process. Democratic House and Senate members felt betrayed by Schumer, and the Senators he led to vote for it [see names below].

After saying Democrats would not vote for the bill, Senate Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer flip flopped and then led enough Democrats to vote for the bill to ensure its passage, including John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, Dick Durbin of Illinois, Brian Schatz of Hawaii, Gary Peters of Michigan, Maggie Hassan of NewHampshire, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Independent Angus King who caucuses with the Democrats. They argued that not voting for it would have been worse.

So Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, led eight other Democrats and one Independent who caucuses with the Democrats [Angus King of Maine], to vote for a bill which all House Democrats except one [Golden of Maine], and 38 of the 45 Democratic Senators voted against. The reason they voted against it is because the Republicans control the Senate, the House and the Executive branches of government and they would completely own the shutdown, which understandably the American people don't like.

In the graphic of a Trump post on Friday, March 14, 2025, Trump congratulates Senator Schumer for keeping the government open by agreeing to vote in favor of a bill in which he, and the 75 million voters who supported Harris and the Democrats in November 2024, were unable to have any voice. About 77 million voters selected Trump and the Republicans and they're well on their way to getting nearly 100% of the pie.

So, if you're a billionaire controlled Network TV News viewer, ask yourself if you were well informed of all of the important details and key facts noted above. Or did they just tell you the surface level headlines, and keep you ignorant of who is who - like Chuck Schumer - who appears to have abandoned his own party in favor of the billionaires. Did he do this so he will be talked about favorably by the Network TV News outlets they control, so that the Network TV News audiences will vote for him again, because the TV News watchers are so ill-informed? Schumer justified his vote saying, "I believe it is my job to make the best choice for the country, to minimize the harms to the American people ... Therefore, I will vote to keep the government open, and not shut it down."

Schumer's statement was as dishonest as it is inaccurate. Giving up power to the few, on behalf of the people you represent, is NEVER best for the people you represent. But many of the bought-and-paid-for pols of our time, have been doing just that, at what appears an unprecedented rate. They do it because there are no consequences at the ballot box, because the voters are continually misinformed about who is who and what is what, by the billionaire controlled Network TV News. This is how a 'Democracy Dies in Darkness'. The voters get distracted, quit paying attention to the things that really make a difference in their lives, and are left in the dark. Not long after they become ignorant and make poor choices at the polls, they lose their rights, including to fair remuneration - like the denizens of Russia and China.

BSky.app is generally a very good source of insightful political information about what's going on in Washington, D.C. Unlike TV News and other Social Media platforms, it's not controlled by the billionaires, so it's audience, which filters and parlays the content - is comprised of journalists and academics - who seem to do a pretty good job of informing the users about what's going down. And BSky.app seems to keep what's posted fairly decent. In the two months that I've been on BSky.app, I have been extremely disappointed by what the billionaire Network TV News people are telling their audiences, by providing what seems an open mic [that's not fact checked like the presidential debates of 2024 on CNN & CBS] for all of the misinformation coming out of the billionaires and politicians currently in control of the federal government in Washington, D.C. right now. Are the Network TV New people incompetent, ignorant or complicit? It really doesn't matter as the result to the viewer is the same - they are being misinformed.

TV News Failures to Inform will Continue, so NYC Voters Must Take the Initiative to Find & Share Alternate Web News Sources

This will Help Ensure NYC Voters get the Whole Picture, Not Just the Part of the Picture that the Billionaire Controlled Network TV News Wants Voters to See

The Democratic Mayoral Primary is June 24th, and it's not too early to start doing your homework on the candidates. We intend to help, by publishing some reports about the mayoral candidates, to help you make an informed decision.

Mayoral Election Candidate Homework Begins. But for starters, to get you paying attention to what's really going on, since you'll learn little to none of this on TV:

1) Mainstream Moneyed Media UnFair & UnBalanced. Pay attention to how the Network TV & Radio News provide the lion's share of coverage to the two best known, and allegedly the most corrupt, candidates running for Mayor [Cuomo & Adams]. Billionaires love compromised pols, because they are easier to manipulate to get what they want, as Donald Trump just proved with Mayor Adams. [Cuomo is no saint either. Person(s) close to Cuomo was / were convicted of corruption, during an investigation of NYS government. It was around that time that Cuomo terminated the investigation.]. And the coverage won't be hard news journalism about who these two guys are and how they governed, likely because the TV News people of today seem so uninformed. And

2) Democratic Party Manipulations / Shenanigans in Cuomo's Favor. This is a working hypothesis, but in the past it has generally been proven to be true. Adrienne Adams' candidacy isn't real in the sense that she doesn't stand a ghost's chance in hell of winning the upcoming Mayoral Primary. And likely winning is not her intention anyway, but rather she is running in the service to Cuomo and the Democratic Party, to make sure that Eric Adams doesn't win. Putting her name on the ballot, will confuse enough voters to siphon off some from Eric Adams, because there are a lot of low information voters, many of which likely won't be able to distinguish which Adams is Eric. And since Adrienne's name comes first in the alphabet, she likely has first shot at getting voters to pencil in her dot before they notice that E. Adams is further down the ballot. Back in the 1940's, President Kennedy's father, made sure there were two Joe Russos on the ballot during Kennedy's first campaign for Congress, so that the Russos would split the Italian vote, and pave the way for the Kennedy win. Unfortunately for us, neither Adams nor Cuomo are in any way comparable to the kind of leader JFK was.

3) While watching TV News coverage of the election, ask yourself a few questions. Which candidates are receiving the lion's share of TV News coverage and why? Which candidates appear to have the lion's share of enthusiasm or interest, and why aren't they being covered at least as much? What is the billionaire controlled TV News self-serving narrative [theme] of this Mayoral election? Is the TV News narrative about what really ails NYC, or have they artificially made it the narrative, so voters will put one of their two favored candidates back in office?

Stay tuned.