In helping averti a shutdown, Chuck Schumer has ignited a rebellion within his own party, writes Philip Elliott in The D.C. Brief

Chuck Schumer has given Senate Democrats an out — drastically lowering the chances of a government shutdown Saturday.

Younger Democrats are chafing at and increasingly complaining about what they see as the feebleness of the old guard’s efforts to push back against President Donald Trump.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has abandoned Democrats’ budget strategy, conceding to Republican demands and averting a government shutdown in a move that President Trump quickly celebrated as a Democratic capitulation.

With Democrats in the House and Senate raging at Schumer because he insisted senators bend a knee to President Donald Trump and approve a federal government spending plan that guts critical programs — rather than shut down the government — Jeffries was asked whether he believed Schumer had “acquiesced.”