NYC protesters demand Schumer step down over budget vote: Devastating lack of leadership

About 100 protesters rallied outside Sen.Chuck Schumer’s Park Slope home Sunday to rip him for folding on a GOP-backed spending bill — with one sign reading, “Lost spine, if found please return to Chuck.”Schumer — the Empire State’s 74-year-old senior senator and Democratic caucus leader since 2017 — has insisted he won’t step down from his leadership role despite mounting pressure to do so.The senator showed a “devastating lack of leadership as he capitulated to [President] Trump, [Elon] Musk and the GOP during negotiations over government funding,” said a statement from Indivisible Brooklyn, the liberal group that staged the demonstration at Schumer’s Brooklyn home.“Since then, Senator Schumer has been pleading his case on multiple platforms, but New Yorkers aren’t buying it,” the statement said.

“Schumer is not meeting the dire moment: It’s time for new leadership in the Senate that will fight fascism tooth and nail.”Some of Sunday’s picketers toted signs that read, “Stand up or step down” and, “Resist or resign.”About a dozen officers stood watch outside the embattled leader’s home, which was also protected by metal barricades that forced the protesters across the street.“Your time is up, Chuck!” they chanted as the cops looked on.

Jennie Spector, one of Indivisible Brooklyn’s organizers, told The Post that Schumer “really betrayed us [and] betrayed the people who are counting on him to step up and protect us from what is clearly a fascist government in the White House.“We’re calling on him to step down as minority leader because he’s not the leader we need at this moment,” Spector said.Schumer’s office did not respond Sunday to Post requests for comment.The Brooklyn Democrat is suffering a backlash of epic proportions after he and nine other Dems voted in favor of a Republican spending bill that avoided a government shutdown earlier this month.But Schumer said he won’t be leaving his post, desp...