Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer says he won’t resign his post, despite pressure from some in his party after he voted to move forward with a Republican spending bill that avoided a government shutdown.

“Look, I’m not stepping down,” Schumer said in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” that aired Sunday. The New York senator said he knew voting for the bill backed by Republican President Donald Trump would spark “a lot of controversy.”

“I did it out of pure conviction as to what a leader should do and what the right thing for America and my party was,” he said. “People disagree.”

Democrats last week were confronted with two painful options: allowing passage of a bill they believe gave Trump vast discretion on spending decisions or letting funding lapse. After Schumer said he’d vote to advance the spending measure, 10 Democrats supported breaking the party’s filibuster and allowing the bill to pass.

Schumer’s move has sparked outrage from some Democrats and progressive activists who protested at his office and called on him to resign his position. They said they’d like to see him face a primary challenge — perhaps from New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

The uproar prompted Schumer last week to postpone his book tour amid a series of planned progressive demonstrations.

Schumer told NBC that the spending bill that funds the government through September was “certainly bad.” But he argued that not voting to provide the funding would have been “15 or 20 times worse.” He called his action “a vote of principle,” arguing that “sometimes when you’re a leader, you have to do things to avoid a real danger that might come down the curve.”

“I don’t want to talk about inside-the-beltway stuff,” Sanders said.

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Gov. Ron DeSantis is headed to Idaho and Montana Monday, where he will hold press conferences with Governors Brad Little and Greg Gianforte.

The press advisory from the Governor’s Office omitted details about why he’s going. However, Idaho News 6 reports that the Florida Governor will be pushing for a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as part of the Balanced Budget Campaign supported by all Republican Governors.

KTXB reports he will be in Idaho for a so-called “informal rally aimed at state legislators” between 8 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. The press conference in Idaho is slated for 9:30 a.m Mountain Time, while the Montana event (presumably covering the same topic) is scheduled for 1:45 MT.

The Governor has made news involving both states in the last year.

DeSantis found a way to disparage Idaho’s recent economic growth, arguing that its lower population than Florida made it impossible to truly equate what’s happened in the two states.

At a press conference, the Governor was discussing Florida having the second-best performance in the “economy,” which has grown by more than 30% since he has been in office. He said Florida led “sizable states,” but less-populated “Idaho may be a little bit more than us.”

But DeSantis dissed the comparison between the states.

“Idaho has less people than Polk County does, so it’s a little bit different comparison when you’re talking, and I love Idaho, but it’s just not the same as comparing to a mature economy,” he said at Winter Haven’s Central Florida Intermodal Logistics Center.

While Gov. DeSantis hasn’t held forth about Montana’s economy, he was active in working to get U.S.  Senator Tim Sheehy elected last year.

Meanwhile, First Lady Casey DeSantis vacationed in the state last July. She ran a 5K according to a published report.

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