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"I'm the best leader for the Senate," Chuck Schumer says amid internal party drama after shutdown vote

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Chuck Schumer defended his decision to allow a GOP -led continuing resolution to advance.

Schumer said a shutdown would have given "sole power" to the executive branch and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency to determine what remained open and closed during a shutdown.

"I knew when I took this vote there'd be a lot of protests, but I felt I had to do it for the future," he said.