FULL TITLE: House GOP Leadership Sends Members Home, Calls Schumer’s Bluff: ‘Schumer Needs to Decide if He Wants a Shutdown’ House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said that Republican leadership will send House lawmakers home this weekend, calling Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) bluff on a potential government shutdown. “We’ve passed our CR [Continuing Resolution],” McCarthy said after a House leadership meeting.