In an unprecedented move, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer took the opportunity to criticize the leadership of a foreign nation. “Amidst what is one of the world’s more tumultuous regimes, Jews living under the rule of King Achashveirosh killed 75,000 souls,” Schumer stated. “It has become clear to me: The Mordechai coalition no longer fits the needs of Jews after 14 Adar. The world has changed, radically, since then, and the Jewish people are being stifled right now by a governing vision that is stuck in the past.”