Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) announced on Wednesday that he filed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to try and require Senate Republicans to vote on whether the Justice Department should release all of the files surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and deceased convicted sex offender.

“We’re going to keep fighting until these files are fully released,” he said in a social media video.

It’s highly unlikely that this amendment will go anywhere. To get a formal vote on the amendment, Schumer would first need to clear a 60-vote procedural hurdle, which would require buy-in from more than a handful of Republicans.

This amendment — which mirrors a similar discharge petition in the House — is clearly an effort by Schumer to appease a Democratic base that is longing for congressional leaders to fight against Trump and is skeptical that the New York Democrat is still the right man to lead Senate Democrats during a second Trump administration.

After all, Schumer’s move comes as congressional Democrats are reportedly weighing playing hardball with Republicans ahead of a September 30 government funding deadline. Earlier this week, House Democrats reportedly fumed to their party leaders about how the Senate minority leader handled the government funding fight back in March. Fearing that the American public would blame Democrats for a shutdown in the spring, Schumer helped Senate Republicans clear a filibuster to keep the government running.

Six months later, there’s still frustration among congressional Democrats that he miscalculated politically by caving to Republicans’ stopgap funding legislation. “There was anticipatory anger rooted in what went down in March . . . Schumer was named explicitly,” one House Democrat told Axios of Tuesday’s closed-door caucus meeting.