Chuck Schumer is facing mounting calls to step down as the Democrats’ Senate leader after he voted in favor of Republicans’ spending package Friday, which has been described as a “blank check” for the White House to keep defunding and dismantling government services and agencies. Groups including Indivisible and Pass the Torch have joined the calls for Schumer to step aside. On Friday, 11 young activists with Sunrise Movement were arrested at Schumer’s D.C. office as they urged him not to “compromise on our lives and futures” ahead of the vote. The other Democratic senators who voted with Schumer and the Republicans were Catherine Cortez Masto, Dick Durbin, John Fetterman, Kirsten Gillibrand, Maggie Hassan, Gary Peters, Brian Schatz, Jeanne Shaheen and independent Senator Angus King.

Calls have also been mounting for New York Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to challenge Schumer in his next primary election, as she led the charge to oppose the GOP spending bill. She spoke on CNN ahead of the vote.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “This turns the federal government into a slush fund for Donald Trump and Elon Musk. It sacrifices congressional authority, and it is deeply partisan. And so, to me, it is almost unthinkable why Senate Democrats would vote to hand the few pieces of leverage that we have away for free, when we’ve been sent here to protect Social Security, protect Medicaid and protect Medicare.”