Chuck Schumer

Official Account of Senator Chuck Schumer, New York’s Senator and the Senate Democratic Leader.

[Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer]

Today is National Gun Violence Awareness Day. Today and everyday, we honor every life lost to gun violence and every family forever changed by it.

Gun violence is a public safety crisis that claims far too many lives across America. I will not stop fighting in the Senate to put an end to the senseless gun violence in our country.

[Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer]

100 days of Trump’s illegal war. 

8 times Senate Democrats have given Republicans a chance to end this illegal war.

How much longer do prices have to rise and families of service members have to wait for Republican Senators to grow a spine?

[Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer]

61 years ago today, the Supreme Court's Griswold v. Connecticut decision recognized a constitutional right to privacy and access to contraception.

Today, that foundation is under attack. Anti-choice Republicans are threatening reproductive freedom, including birth control. Senate Democrats will keep fighting to protect these fundamental rights.

[Senate Democrats @SenateDems]

ICYMI: Senate Republicans cheered after spending 18 hours passing a rotten bill that makes their priorities painfully clear: more money for Donald Trump, more power for Donald Trump, and nothing to lower costs for working families.

[Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer]

It was an honor to meet with Dr. Fadi Atrash, the CEO of Augusta Victoria Hospital in East Jerusalem.

The Augusta Victoria Hospital is one of 6 hospitals in the East Jerusalem Hospital Network that serves Palestinians in East Jerusalem and Gaza and had previously been a recipient of USAID funding before the disastrous cuts. 

As the crisis in the West Bank deepens and health care access in Gaza remains insufficient, we must restore US funding so that Dr. Atrash and those like him can continue to serve Palestinians who desperately need the life-saving medical care that the East Jerusalem Hospital Network provides.

[Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer]

Today is the 45th anniversary of the discovery of HIV.

The Trump Administration’s $1 trillion in cuts is devastating health care and threatening progress to #EndHIV.

We must protect HIV funding for research, testing and prevention for people across the country, including for the 120,000 New Yorkers living with HIV.

[Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer]

Senate Republicans just passed a rotten bill that makes their priorities painfully clear:

More money for Donald Trump, more power for Donald Trump, and nothing to lower costs for working families.

[Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer]

We are still fighting back on the Senate floor.

Senate Democrats will continue to hold Trump and the Republicans accountable—vote by vote.

[Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer]

50-49: Republicans, by one vote, chose to keep Trump’s insurrectionist slush fund dream alive.

After they fumbled around for hours, we needed just one more Republican to muster the courage to end Trump’s taxpayer handout to cop beaters and felons.

As per usual, they were spineless.
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[Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer]

The first amendment I offered in today’s vote-a-rama was to BLOCK Trump's MAGA slush fund forever.

With the whole country watching, Republicans chose to support this corrupt slush fund.

[Senate Democrats @SenateDems]

HAPPENING NOW: To begin today's vote-a-rama, @SenSchumer offers an amendment to eliminate Donald Trump's DOJ slush fund.

[Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer]

Senate Democrats will put Senate Republicans on record and force them to vote on Trump's lifetime tax exemption.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Analysis: When the Trump administration announced its controversial legal fund popular with Jan. 6 rioters, it also gave President Trump immunity from any potential tax crimes for any taxes filed up to now.

It’s “a legal absurdity,” said one expert. https://t.co/BG8ipZyMiv

[Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer]

Democrats made sure that today's vote-a-rama happens in broad daylight because Americans deserve to see what the GOP is prioritizing over lowering their costs.

We will not let Republicans force their radical reconciliation bill under the cover of night.

[Senate Democrats @SenateDems]

REMINDER: This is what @SenateGOP is fighting to shovel an additional $70 billion dollars toward.

[Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer]

This is EXACTLY why @SenateDems will be forcing a vote this week to outlaw Trump's MAGA slush fund permanently.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Q: Can you explain why you decided to drop the slush fund?

Trump: So... I love it. I think it's so important. Frankly, we had a lawsuit against us on the weaponization where a radical left judge ruled against it. And we'll see how that all works out

[ABC News @ABC]

President Trump is floating the possibility of keeping the UFC arena on the White House South Lawn — built for a series of fights on his birthday and Flag Day — permanently.

Read more: https://t.co/PdI3ZarEYr

[Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer]

As Trump wages war on our elections:

@SenateDems Election Protection Task Force is gearing up with lawyers and response teams the moment he tries to interfere.

The GOP is already ignoring your bills, wages, health care, and freedom—we won’t let them ignore your vote too.

[Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer]

I'm pushing to permanently ban BOTH Trump's MAGA slush fund and the blank check he cut to himself and his family that would allow them to cheat on their taxes.

@SenateGOP: If you believe the slush fund should be banned and that they shouldn’t get tax immunity, then vote yes.

America will be watching.

[Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer]

Todd Blanche won’t put anything in writing because he knows that he and Trump are both lying.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

MENG: Are you going to issue a new memo in writing rescinding the weaponization fund?

BLANCHE: I'm not committing to putting anything in writing. What would the purpose be?

MENG: You established it in writing, so it makes sense to rescind it in writing

BLANCHE: Ok. I'm not committing to doing anything in writing.

[Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer]

The contrast is clear:

The GOP is fighting for Trump and his corrupt slush fund, his ballroom, a rogue police force, and his reckless war in Iran

While Democrats are fighting to lower costs for Americans, bring back stability, and pushing against Trump’s corrupt administration