WASHINGTON — Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is taking heat from the far left of his party to step aside after the record-breaking government shutdown looked set to end with nothing to show for it.

The fumbled finish to the 41-day shutdown has Democrats bashing each other, with one senator, Angus King (I-Maine), admitting, “standing up to Trump didn’t work.”

Much of the fury is aimed at the Senate Minority Leader, 74, who claimed he opposed the capitulation deal, but whose No. 2, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois), was one of eight senators to join Republicans on a plan to end the impasse that has grounded flights, furloughed federal workers, and put food stamps for hungry families on hold.

“Schumer — for better or worse — is the living embodiment of the phrase damned if you do, damned if you

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