{"id":2493428,"date":"2025-10-01T16:43:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T20:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-emasculates-chuck-schumer-with-message-to-republicans-come-strike-a-deal-with-me\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T16:44:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T20:44:23","slug":"aoc-emasculates-chuck-schumer-with-message-to-republicans-come-strike-a-deal-with-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-emasculates-chuck-schumer-with-message-to-republicans-come-strike-a-deal-with-me\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC Emasculates Chuck Schumer with Message to Republicans: &#8216;Come Strike a Deal with Me&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faoc-emasculates-chuck-schumer-with-message-to-republicans-come-strike-a-deal-with-me%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2493428&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses a political development involving Senate minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) during a government shutdown. AOC publicly challenged Republicans to negotiate directly with her to end the shutdown,effectively sidelining Schumer and positioning herself as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pelosi-says-she-didnt-ask-biden-to-step-down-but-to-provide-campaign-that-would-win-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Pelosi says she didn\u2019t ask Biden to step down but to provide \u2018campaign that would win\u2019 - Washington Examiner\">key power player<\/a> in Democratic politics. On MSNBC, she emphasized her commitment to protecting vulnerable americans who rely on government support for healthcare, notably insulin and chemotherapy, and invited republicans to her office if they believed she was the cause of the shutdown. This move is seen as undermining Schumer&#8217;s influence and signaling AOC&#8217;s rising prominence within the Democratic Party,despite her minority status in the House and the ongoing senate deadlock. The article suggests that AOC is strategically asserting herself politically, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >possibly eyeing greater leadership roles<\/a> in the future.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>If Chuck Schumer thought shutting down the government was going to save his career, he might have just made it worse.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview Tuesday night on MSNBC, New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez all but went over the Senate minority leader&rsquo;s head when she invited Republicans to come to her office to negotiate a government reopening.<\/p>\n<p>And the unspoken message was crystal clear.<\/p>\n<p>The moment came when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/msnbcs-chris-hayes-gets-schooled-conservatives-obviously-deranged-reading-second-amendment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">famously lefty host<\/a> Chris Hayes asked Ocasio-Cortez on &ldquo;All In with Chris Hayes&rdquo; about Republican charges that Schumer has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-sets-stage-massive-federal-layoffs-shutdown-begins-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shut down the government<\/a> in a play to his party&rsquo;s leftist base, trying to forestall an AOC primary challenge next year.<\/p>\n<p>The congresswoman&rsquo;s response was devastating, from Schumer&rsquo;s perspective, as she basically ignored the career politician &mdash; she never even mentioned his name &mdash; and inserted <em>herself<\/em>&nbsp;squarely into the conversation.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadScript(\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?fk=s28Az7AY\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>She liked the look so much that she posted it to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platform<\/a> X:<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If Republicans want to blame their shutdown on me, they are more than welcome to come to my office and negotiate anytime,&rdquo; she wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">If Republicans want to blame their shutdown on me, they are more than welcome to come to my office and negotiate anytime.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike them, I won&rsquo;t let kids and hard working people get cut off their insulin and chemo on my watch.<\/p>\n<p>They know it, too. Door&rsquo;s open fellas. Your call. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q1FsbiuqyH\">https:\/\/t.co\/q1FsbiuqyH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1973217667839578218?\">October 1, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is so not about me in this moment,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;This is about people being able to insure their children. And I will say, because I saw some senators speculating about this, and I saw some Republican members of Congress saying, &ldquo;Oh, well, if we have this shutdown, it&rsquo;s because of AOC.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Well, if that&rsquo;s the case, my office is open, and you are free to walk in and negotiate with me directly, because what I&rsquo;m not going to do is tolerate four million uninsured Americans because Donald Trump decided one day that he wants to just make sure that kids are dying because they don&rsquo;t have access to insurance.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s what&rsquo;s not gonna happen. And so, if those senators think that we&rsquo;re having a shutdown because of me, they&rsquo;re free to enter my office and negotiate, because what we&rsquo;re not going to do is allow all of millions of people in this country to not be able to afford their insulin and their chemotherapy. So, come strike a deal with me, if that&rsquo;s what they really think is going on.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Cut through the emotional hyperbole of &ldquo;<em>insure their children<\/em>&rdquo; and &ldquo;<em>kids are dying<\/em>&rdquo; and what you get is a statement as coldly and politically calculated as anything out of Machiavelli or the Medici family history.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer is effectively emasculated, reduced to an impotent, spent force in American politics whose function is essentially keeping that New York Senate seat warm until AOC decides to nestle herself right into it to think about a run for the White House (the way Hillary Clinton treated New York&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/story?id=122553&amp;page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">other Senate seat<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>She isn&rsquo;t just measuring the drapes. She&rsquo;s practically paid for the new sets &mdash; and ordered Schumer to the shop to pick them up for her.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the idea of any Republican feeling the need to speak to her at this point is nonsense &mdash; and even AOC knows it.<\/p>\n<p>She&rsquo;s a Democrat in the House, a member of a minority party in the chamber of Congress that has already passed a continuing resolution to keep the government open. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-cancels-meeting-schumer-jeffries-seeing-unserious-ridiculous-demands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">impasse<\/a> is in the Senate, where Schumer continues to hold his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/schumer-turns-shutdown-fix-idea-fellow-democrats-erupt-open-mutiny\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">increasingly uncertain sway<\/a> over Ocasio-Cortez&rsquo;s political party.<\/p>\n<p>Typical AOC twaddle? Many social media users thought so.<\/p>\n<p>But the message she got across to MSNBC&rsquo;s Democratic viewers is that she &mdash; not Schumer &mdash; is the power in Democratic politics that Republicans need to take into account.<\/p>\n<p>Purely from the standpoint of Democratic power politics, it could hardly have been better for AOC.<\/p>\n<p>And for Chuck Schumer, it could hardly have been worse.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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