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	"author_name": "DSA National Electoral Commission",
	"author_url": "https://actionnetwork.org/groups/dsa-national-electoral-committee",
	"title": "Don&#x27;t Make Chuck Schumer the Senate Majority Leader",
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	"description": "Voters have just delivered a historic landslide victory to Democrats in the midterm elections. Senate Democrats will hold at least 54 seats at the start of the next term, possibly as many as 56, up from 47 before the election. Many of these new Democratic Senators were elected on economic populism, standing up to corporate interests, and valuing human rights over support for israel. Despite all this, the Senate Democratic caucus is poised to coronate Chuck Schumer as Senate Majority Leader. Schumer is the Senate&#x27;s top recipient of pro-israel money and he acts like it. He opposed Obama&#x27;s nuclear deal with Iran and has consistently declined to use the power available to the minority party to oppose Trump&#x27;s unprovoked and illegal war against the Iranian people. There is no reason to expect that he would use the power of the majority party to end the war, and it would be especially egregious to make him the Majority Leader given that the steadfast resistance of the Iranian people to Trump&#x27;s aggression surely played a roll in electing a Democratic majority. But it&#x27;s not just israel. Schumer has a long record of accepting donations from corporate interests and delivering for their interests, from defeating a tax increase on hedge fund and private equity managers to helping pass Republican spending bills when the Democrats had leverage. We don&#x27;t expect any Democratic Senate Majority Leader to bring about socialism, and regardless of who is made the Majority Leader there will be times when we vehemently disagree with them. However, there are issues where some Democratic Senators agree with us, and if Senate Democrats choose one of those Senators as their majority leader, there will at least be a better chance for some improvements in the lives of working class people.",
	"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/letters/dont-make-chuck-schumer-the-senate-majority-leader"
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