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, despite shade being thrown his way even from former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
“Look, I’m not stepping down,” Schumer told NBC’s “Meet the Press” in a pre-taped interview that aired Sunday. “I [voted] out of pure conviction as to what a leader should do and what the right thing for America and my party was. People disagree.”
Still, some rank-and-file Democrats have been enraged by his vote, which they saw as kneecapping the left wing’s only shot to extract concessions from the GOP.
House Republicans passed the six-month spending bill along party lines in that chamber, but the GOP’s narrow Senate majority meant Democrats could have killed the proposal had they uniformly voted against it.
That didn’t happen. Trump signed the bill into law March 15.
“What we got at the end of the day is avoiding the horror of a shutdown,” Schumer said in defense of his decision. “There was no leverage point that we could’ve asked for things. They just would’ve said no.”
He also claimed that sliding into a partial shutdown would have given Trump and his administration even more room to make Draconian spending cuts to the federal budget.
A shutdown, he said, would play into their hands.
His constituents’ anger even forced him to postpone his book tour last week because of security concerns.
