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"SENATE leader faces pressure from HOUSE Democrats" sounds great until you realize they have no means to force it to happen because they're in the other chamber of Congress.
I want to know where the fuck is the "pressure" from other Democratic Senators who could actually apply consequences!
It's still good for the House Dems to be doing this, though, calling attention to the problem so more people will call their Dem senators demanding that they take action as well.
Sure, it doesn't hurt, but House Democrats' focus should be on denouncing the quislings in their own chamber, since those are the ones they have the power to apply consequences to.
If that's happening, I haven't read any news about it.
Otherwise, having the Democrats criticize only across chambers while remaining silent within them starts to feel more like a tactic of avoiding accountability than one of applying it.
Only one House Dem voted yes on it (Jared Golden of Maine). So it passed 217-213 because R's have the majority and one of them defected as well. So House Dems are holding together pretty well, but as long as the R's also hold together there's nothing they can do to stop them.
Only the Senate D's could have stopped the bill, by voting against cloture (even though Dems are in the minority, cloture requires 60 votes). But not only Schumer but 9 other quislings (8 D's and 1 I) voted with the fascists. List of them here. But Schumer is Leader so if he had taken a stand against it, probably some of those other 9 would have followed his lead and it could have been stopped.
too busy clutching pearls and massaging their stock portfolios
Especially the ones who voted with Schumer. He could've "urged" people to pass the CR all he wanted but he needed people complicit in voting with him.