Charles E. Schumer: “Our majority will be measured against one test and one test only: Have we made your life better?”

These voters did not give us the majority so we can do whatever we want. They entrusted us with the majority to do what they, the American people, want.

Eight months in, Americans continue to face mounting costs, nearly two-thirds say going to war was the wrong decision, and there is still no end in sight — even if President Trump would like to claim so.

I’ll be reelected as majority leader.

But I will promise the American people: The Democratic Party will fight to make your life more affordable, your government more competent, your capital less corrupt, bill by bill, brick by brick, for as long as it takes for you to feel the…