MSNBC host Symone Sanders-Townsend has suggested that she will leave the Democratic Party and change her registration to independent, citing her outrage at Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for helping ensure the passage of a six-month government funding bill drawn up by Republicans.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who has been the target of scathing criticism from members of his own party after voting for a Republican-drafted stopgap spending bill that cut many nondefense programs,