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Chuck Schumer

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Chuck Schumer is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from New York since 1999. A member of the Democratic Party, he has held the position of Senate Majority Leader since January 2021, making him one of the most prominent figures in the U.S. Senate. Schumer previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1981 to 1999, representing New York's 9th congressional district. Throughout his career, he has focused on issues such as healthcare, infrastructure, and economic development, often advocating for policies that benefit working families and promote social justice.

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Jul 15, 2025

It is now the middle of July. Inflation is going up. And that is the definition of a broken promise.

msnbc.com
Jul 15, 2025

We’ve said from the start that Donald Trump’s tariffs are a national sales tax on working and middle class families — and now it is causing inflation to rise, as many of us feared.

msnbc.com
Jul 15, 2025

What they are doing, that is just the start. Republicans have made it clear: They want even deeper cuts to Medicaid.

huffpost.com
Jul 15, 2025

Tariffs raise the price of groceries, add thousands of dollars in additional costs for the average household, and Donald Trump’s chaotic approach does nothing — nothing — to make our economy stronger.

msnbc.com
Jul 15, 2025

Hospitals in Iowa, Nebraska, North Carolina and Maine have already announced that they’re closing or in serious danger of closing – not in 2027, not in 2028, but soon.

huffpost.com
Jul 15, 2025

At least 300 rural hospitals are at immediate risk of closing because of this bill. Not two years from now. Now, this week. Two weeks after the bill passed.

huffpost.com
Jul 15, 2025

We are doing everything we can — everything we can to keep the bipartisan appropriations process going forward.

nbcnews.com
Jul 14, 2025

Here's who Senate GOP is trying to put on the federal bench: Whitney Hermandorfer. Less than ten years of legal experience. Never served as the sole or chief counsel on a single case that was tried to verdict. Made a career out of going…

newsweek.com
Jul 10, 2025

I have known Zohran Mamdani since we worked together to provide debt relief for thousands of beleaguered taxi drivers and fought to stop a fracked gas plant in Astoria.

breitbart.com
Jul 10, 2025

[I]t is absurd for [Republicans] to expect Democrats to act as business as usual and engage in a bipartisan appropriations process to fund the government, while they concurrently plot to pass a purely partisan rescissions bill to defund…

commondreams.org
Jul 10, 2025

Frequently used expressions such as ‘globalize the intifada’ sound to many of us like a call to not only kill the Jews in Israel, but to kill all the Jews worldwide.

breitbart.com
Jul 10, 2025

He ran an impressive campaign that connected with New Yorkers about affordability, fairness, and opportunity.

breitbart.com
Jul 9, 2025

If Republicans cave to Donald Trump and gut these investments agreed to by both parties, that would be an affront — a huge affront — to the bipartisan appropriations process.

nbcnews.com
Jul 7, 2025

Following the disastrous and deeply devastating flash flooding in Texas this weekend, I write to urge you to immediately to open an investigation into the scope, breadth, and ramifications of whether staffing shortages at key local…

huffpost.com
Jul 7, 2025

staffing shortages at the agency resulted in a higher death toll.

nypost.com
Jul 7, 2025

To honor the lives of those lost, we have a responsibility to the American people to determine whether preventable failures contributed to this tragedy — and to ensure that it never happens again.

msnbc.com
Jul 4, 2025

This is antisemitic. Plain and simple. Trump is just spewing hate.

nypost.com
Jul 2, 2025

Today's vote will haunt our Republican colleagues for years to come as the American people see the damage that is done—as hospitals close, as people are laid off, as costs go up, as the debt increases.

newsweek.com
Jul 2, 2025

Republicans are in shambles because they know the bill is so unpopular.

newsweek.com
Jul 1, 2025

Republicans are in shambles because they know the bill is so unpopular.

newsweek.com
Jul 1, 2025

This bill, as we have said for months, steals people’s healthcare, jacks up their electricity bill to pay for tax breaks for billionaires.

nypost.com
Jul 1, 2025

Americans will pay the price of this perfidy for generations.

nbcnews.com
Jun 30, 2025

The Republicans are still in disarray. They’re hiding from us all kinds of things.

nbcnews.com
Jun 30, 2025

I have known @ZohranKMamdani since we worked together to provide debt relief for thousands of beleaguered taxi drivers & fought to stop a fracked gas plant in Astoria. He ran an impressive campaign that connected with New Yorkers about…

newsweek.com
Jun 30, 2025

Senate Democrats seek Jeffrey Epstein files from Trump administration through obscure law.

cnbc.com

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