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Chris Stein in Washington

Angry Democrats call on Schumer to resign after eight vote to end shutdown

Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer speaks with reporters at the Capitol Subway on 5 November in Washington. Photograph: Mariam Zuhaib/AP

Democrats are seething after news emerged on Sunday that eight members of their Senate caucus had collaborated with Republicans on crafting a compromise to end the longest government shutdown in US history, without winning any healthcare concessions that they had sought.

But one name is coming in for more opprobrium than any other: Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader who had led the Democrats’ weeks-long stand against reopening the government without an extension of tax credits that lower premiums for Affordable Care Act (ACA) health plans.

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