A Democratic senator on the fights his party has to pick

Senator Chris Van Hollen in front of the State Department on April 29 in Washington, DC. | Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images Last week, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that Democrats would be seeking a restoration in funding to Medicare and to extend Obamacare subsidies in the upcoming government funding bill. If Republicans refuse to come to the table, Senator Schumer says Democrats will withhold their votes, forcing a government shutdown at the end of the month.  Days before Schumer’s announcement, conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at an event in Utah