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Standing at the St. Vincent DePaul Society Food Pantry in Wyoming County, Schumer said New Yorkers are already struggling to feed their families amid rising grocery costs due to tariffs, and losing vital food assistance because of the cuts in the Republican budget, causing advocates to warn of a hunger crisis."},"E8EEFE54-F224-4640-B5D5-1205A9161438":{"TotalRows":72,"uid":"E8EEFE54-F224-4640-B5D5-1205A9161438","title":"Norwich SNAP","summary":"Norwich, NY","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"November 26, 2025","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/norwich-snap","city":"Norwich","county":"Chenango","lat":42.531185150146484,"lng":-75.52351379394531,"description":"On November 26, 2025, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced his new legislation – the Restoring Food Security for American Families and Farmers Act – to repeal the devastating SNAP cuts set to rip away food from thousands of hungry kids and families across America. 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Two years ago, Schumer toured the facility and promised to deliver federal support for the Center’s programming.\r\n“No visit to the Adirondacks is complete without a stop at the WILD Center. Twenty-five years ago this week, I first met with Betsy Lowe to talk about her vision for what would become the WILD Center. Since then, I have returned time and time again, both for official visits and with my family. It’s a wonderful place,” said Senator Schumer. “I have been proud to secure federal funding for the museum several times over the years and am so pleased to help on this most recent effort to enhance and expand these beloved exhibits. It’s one of the most popular attractions at the WILD Center, and my grandson still talks about the otters he saw here when we brought him a few years ago.”"},"D031D010-2942-4409-A94A-6701B8315B30":{"TotalRows":72,"uid":"D031D010-2942-4409-A94A-6701B8315B30","title":"Lake Placid Center for the Arts","summary":"Lake Placid, NY","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"November 25, 2025","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/lake-placid-center-for-the-arts","city":"Lake Placid","county":"Essex","lat":44.2940673828125,"lng":-73.99769592285156,"description":"U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer stood at Lake Placid Center for the Arts (LPCA) and celebrated $1 million in federal funding he delivered for its <a href=\"https://www.adirondackexplorer.org/adirondacks-almanack/lake-placid-center-for-the-arts-breaks-ground-on-building-renovation/\">Capital Project</a>, the Center’s new arts and early childhood education hub. Soon, the new arts and education hub will increase access to arts and education for local residents, boost cultural tourism to the North Country, and establish LPCA’s continued role in the community as an indispensable rural institution. Two years ago, Schumer toured the facility and promised to deliver this federal funding, and today, he said the Center is one step closer to bringing this new hub to life."},"450DE527-FEC3-4A57-B17B-0AD8D8FF24E1":{"TotalRows":72,"uid":"450DE527-FEC3-4A57-B17B-0AD8D8FF24E1","title":"Plattsburgh Micro Bus","summary":"Plattsburgh, NY","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"November 25, 2025","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/plattsburgh-micro-bus","city":"Plattsburgh","county":"Clinton","lat":44.712520599365234,"lng":-73.53884887695312,"description":"U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, for the first time, toured the new Micro Bird facility he helped bring to Plattsburgh, protecting hundreds of good-paying local manufacturing jobs. Last year, after Nova Bus announced it would close its North Country facility, Schumer personally called the Volvo CEO, urging the company to sell the manufacturing facility to preserve transportation-manufacturing operations in the North Country. \r\nWith the new Micro Bird facility up and running and planning to expand manufacturing to offer new propane and electric buses, Schumer promised to lead the fight to boost the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) funding that Micro Bird relies on for demand like the “Low or No Emission Vehicle Grant Program” in the upcoming transportation authorization bill to support Micro Bird’s growth in the North Country."},"02ABD154-8938-4770-A7C6-5E3520C8C4E5":{"TotalRows":72,"uid":"02ABD154-8938-4770-A7C6-5E3520C8C4E5","title":"St. Lawrence SNAP","summary":"Massena, NY","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"November 25, 2025","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/st-lawrence-snap","city":"Massena","county":"St. Lawrence","lat":44.92239761352539,"lng":-74.89881896972656,"description":"On Tuesday November 25th, 2025, as North Country schools and food banks prepare to help families for Thanksgiving, just as <a href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Health/snap-back-millions-americans-lose-benefits-due-new/story?id=127593186\">GOP SNAP cuts start to take effect</a> adding to already overwhelming demand, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced his new legislation – the Restoring Food Security for American Families and Farmers Act – to repeal the devastating SNAP cuts set to rip away food from thousands of hungry kids and families across America. 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Senator Schumer took a tour of the facility and then had a briefing with Menlo Micro officials regarding the next steps necessary to help bring the operation up to full capacity."},"607D3EFE-7919-48BC-BCD9-D20089A110B8":{"TotalRows":72,"uid":"607D3EFE-7919-48BC-BCD9-D20089A110B8","title":"Olean SNAP","summary":"Olean, NY","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"November 21, 2025","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/olean-snap","city":"Olean","county":"Cattaraugus","lat":42.079345703125,"lng":-78.42938995361328,"description":"On November 21, 2025, as Western NY food banks prepare to help families for Thanksgiving, just as <a href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Health/snap-back-millions-americans-lose-benefits-due-new/story?id=127593186\">GOP SNAP cuts start to take effect</a> adding to already overwhelming demand, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer today announced his new legislation – the Restoring Food Security for American Families and Farmers Act – to repeal the devastating SNAP cuts set to rip away food from thousands of hungry kids and families across America. 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Senator Schumer signed his application to become a son of the American Legion and toured the Veterans Military Museum. "},"28BD8BDE-3F20-420F-9648-AA141DCE39E0":{"TotalRows":72,"uid":"28BD8BDE-3F20-420F-9648-AA141DCE39E0","title":"Watertown Tariffs","summary":"Watertown, NY","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"November 17, 2025","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/watertown-tariffs","city":"Watertown","county":"Jefferson","lat":43.981441497802734,"lng":-75.91775512695312,"description":"On November 17th, 2025, days after Trump admitted his tariffs are spiking the cost of groceries, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer — flanked by North Country small businesses and families, on the frontlines of rising prices and plummeting tourism from Trump’s reckless trade war— demanded the House immediately take up his just-passed bipartisan Senate bill to end the trade war with Canada. Schumer said North Country families and small businesses are being hit harder than nearly anywhere else in the country by Trump’s tariff war, with costs skyrocketing for New York families by $4,200 each year and, after a brutal summer-tourism season of declining visits from Canada, that we must end this reckless tariff war and stop this tax hike on Upstate NY families."},"01D2FF5B-7178-4D40-82F8-49ADE1BB315E":{"TotalRows":72,"uid":"01D2FF5B-7178-4D40-82F8-49ADE1BB315E","title":"Saratoga Battlefield","summary":"Saratoga, NY","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"November 17, 2025","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/saratoga-battlefield","city":"Stillwater","county":"Saratoga","lat":43.0143928527832,"lng":-73.64939880371094,"description":"Standing at the turning point of the American Revolution on the Saratoga Battlefield, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer announced he is pushing the America the Beautiful Act and launched his efforts to restore its critical Legacy Restoration Fund which has delivered over $6 million in vital funding to Saratoga National Historic Park. The restoration fund expired last month, and this new legislation would continue delivering vital resources to historic sites like the Saratoga Battlefield and increase funding to national parks & historic sites to ensure America’s history lives on as we approach the 250th anniversary of our great nation."},"2438C071-08B0-4DCD-955A-9BEB1E8CA4B1":{"TotalRows":72,"uid":"2438C071-08B0-4DCD-955A-9BEB1E8CA4B1","title":"The Northport VA","summary":"Northport, NY ","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"September 15, 2025","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/the-northport-va","city":"East Northport","county":"Suffolk","lat":40.894474029541016,"lng":-73.31037139892578,"description":"U.S Senator Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer visited the Northport VA to advocate for the needs of the VA, its workers, and the patients it serves. Senator Schumer addressed the severe staffing shortages that threaten veteran care. He highlighted vacant positions across specialties like cardiology, hematology, and psychiatry, along with other critical clinical and non-clinical vacancies. As a response, Senator Schumer announced the upcoming introduction of the Protect America’s Workforce Act, legislation designed to reinstate collective bargaining rights for VA employees, and require the filling of essential positions, emphasizing that veterans should not have to fight for the care they earned. The senator, in his appearance, stressed that immediate action investment was required to properly support our Veterans, across Long Island, and the workforce of the VA."},"D3D3B55F-A095-4CA0-B432-BA197B379165":{"TotalRows":72,"uid":"D3D3B55F-A095-4CA0-B432-BA197B379165","title":"Madison Veterans' Healthcare","summary":"Chittenango, NY","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"August 28, 2025","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/madison-veterans-healthcare","city":"Chittenango","county":"Madison","lat":43.056175231933594,"lng":-75.86410522460938,"description":"On August 28th, 2025, after a new shocking report showed <a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/12/va-veterans-affairs-shortages-cuts-trump/\">VA Medical Centers across the country, including across Upstate NY & Syracuse, facing severe staffing shortages</a>, and after nationwide ‘DOGE’ cuts and <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/us/politics/trump-federal-workers-unions.html\">Trump actions just last week stripping protections for VA union workers</a>, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer stood with Central NY and Mohawk Valley veterans and unions to sound the alarm on this triple threat and demand, “Hands off our veterans' healthcare.”\r\nAcross Upstate NY, VA workers, many of whom are veterans themselves, have already been fired or pushed out – negatively impacting services to our vets. Schumer alongside Central NY veterans is demanding Trump stop these attacks, and he said he is leading the fight in the Senate to reverse the ‘DOGE’ cuts, increase investment and accountability at the VA. Last month, the Senate was able to advance a bipartisan FY26 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs budget bill that increases funding for VA medical care by $2.2 billion over FY25 levels. The Senate version of the bill also includes $52.7 billion for the Toxic Exposures Fund, created by the PACT Act, that provides funds for veterans suffering from toxic exposure, a $22 billion increase from what this fund received in FY25. "},"CD3B1120-4ACD-49E6-91B5-CB1179C4E647":{"TotalRows":72,"uid":"CD3B1120-4ACD-49E6-91B5-CB1179C4E647","title":"St. Mary's Rural Healthcare Funding","summary":"Amsterdam, NY","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"August 28, 2025","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/st-marys-rural-healthcare-funding","city":"Amsterdam","county":"Montgomery","lat":42.9546012878418,"lng":-74.21660614013672,"description":"Standing at St. Mary’s Hospital in Montgomery County—one of New York’s most financially distressed hospitals, where 37% of the population relies on Medicaid—Senator Schumer sounded the alarm on the growing fallout from Trump’s devastating Medicaid cuts, part of the so-called “Big Ugly Betrayal” law. With over 1.5 million New Yorkers projected to lose healthcare coverage and hospitals already slashing services and staff—including a Capital Region facility that just ended outpatient surgeries—Schumer announced his new legislation, the Protecting Health Care and Lowering Costs Act. The bill would repeal these harmful Medicaid cuts and permanently extend the ACA premium tax credits set to expire at the end of this year, which, if not renewed, would raise healthcare costs for working families across the state."},"DF482ACF-A57B-45D4-9C14-5ED4076475C5":{"TotalRows":72,"uid":"DF482ACF-A57B-45D4-9C14-5ED4076475C5","title":"Herkimer NBRC Roundtable","summary":"Herkimer, NY","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"August 28, 2025","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/herkimer-nbrc-roundtable","city":"Herkimer","county":"Herkimer","lat":43.029239654541016,"lng":-74.98768615722656,"description":"On August 28th, 2025, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer stopped in the Village of Herkimer to host a roundtable where he invited several local stakeholders and elected officials to discuss the importance of protecting funding for the Norther Border Regional Commission."},"275BF327-C57B-4320-8EE2-6F97900A0C4E":{"TotalRows":72,"uid":"275BF327-C57B-4320-8EE2-6F97900A0C4E","title":"Johnstown Roundtable","summary":"Johnstown, NY","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"August 28, 2025","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/johnstown-roundtable","city":"Johnstown","county":"Fulton","lat":43.01361846923828,"lng":-74.37181091308594,"description":"Senator Schumer visited Fulton County where he met with local business leaders and elected officials at Townsend Leather Company to discuss pressing workforce development challenges. 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Schumer explained that the Trump administration is not only targeting Job Corps centers for closure, but in his recent budget request, Trump said he wants to eliminate funding for the program.\r\nSchumer said that following his push, the Senate Appropriations Committee has passed a bipartisan bill out of committee that protects funding for Job Corps for next year, and now is calling on House Republicans to follow the Senate’s bipartisan lead, and rebuke Trump’s request to eliminate funding and protect this beloved program that helps WNY students get jobs and small businesses succeed."},"B95CACC1-C2BF-443B-8C30-1558A2DA1C11":{"TotalRows":72,"uid":"B95CACC1-C2BF-443B-8C30-1558A2DA1C11","title":"Cortland Social Security","summary":"Cortland, NY","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"August 12, 2025","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/cortland-social-security","city":"Cortland","county":"Cortland","lat":42.58765411376953,"lng":-76.18009948730469,"description":"On August 12th, 2025, standing with seniors and Social Security workers from across Central NY, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer  announced his push for new legislation to counter Trump’s cuts to Social Security. As ‘DOGE’ continues damaging cuts to the Social Security Administration (SSA), creating chaos & confusion as thousands of employees are laid off and threatening office closures.\r\nThe new bill The Keep Billionaires out of Social Security Act would invest in preventing Social Security field office closures, hiring new staff, protecting beneficiaries’ data, and making long-needed modernizations & upgrades to reduce wait times and improve access for the vital service that nearly 200,000 Central NY seniors & beneficiaries, including over 11,000 in Cortland County, rely on."},"3D84D879-6417-4AE9-88F2-9E367AF298E7":{"TotalRows":72,"uid":"3D84D879-6417-4AE9-88F2-9E367AF298E7","title":"Cayuga Medicaid Cuts","summary":"Auburn, NY","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"August 5, 2025","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/cayuga-medicaid-cuts","city":"Auburn","county":"Cayuga","lat":42.94081497192383,"lng":-76.56588745117188,"description":"On August 5th, 2025, as 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Alongside the senator, local leaders from organizations such as the Family & Children's Association, Central Nassau Guidance & Counseling Services, Phoenix House, LICADD, and Family Service League emphasized the potential devastation to their operations and future plans, such as the Garden City-based Family & Children's Association's decision to halt plans for a $6 million treatment facility. "},"B1C39AB2-C7EA-4CDF-BDE4-6A65FE759E0D":{"TotalRows":72,"uid":"B1C39AB2-C7EA-4CDF-BDE4-6A65FE759E0D","title":"Oswego SNAP Cuts","summary":"Fulton, NY","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"May 27, 2025","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/oswego-snap-cuts","city":"Fulton","county":"Oswego","lat":43.32115173339844,"lng":-76.43594360351562,"description":"On May 27th, 2025, After <a href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/21/nx-s1-5406392/trump-republicans-tax-bill-reconciliation-medicaid\">House Republicans just last week voted to pass the largest cut to the anti-hunger program SNAP in American history</a>, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer stood in Central New York’s hunger hotspot, Oswego County, which has one of the top 5 highest rates of food insecurity in all of NY, with religious leaders, food banks, and farmers on the frontlines of the local fight against hunger to show the devastating local impacts the massive proposed $300 billion SNAP cut to fund Trump’s tax breaks for corporations & billionaires. 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The senator slammed NY House Republicans for unanimously voting to steal from SNAP, which over 150,000 in the Rochester-Finger Lakes region rely on for food, and joined with church leaders and hunger advocates to emphasize how this is a moral issue that the GOP must stop as the Senate considers changes to the bill."},"FC365F96-E007-4B1F-97E8-48199BE84861":{"TotalRows":72,"uid":"FC365F96-E007-4B1F-97E8-48199BE84861","title":"Long Island SNAP","summary":"Long Island SNAP","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"May 19, 2025","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/long-island-snap","city":"Melville","county":"Suffolk","lat":40.762603759765625,"lng":-73.4336929321289,"description":"After Republicans' \"big, beautiful\" budget bill passed out of committee, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer gathered with the Sisters of St. Joseph, other religious leaders, farmers, and seniors on Long Island to sound the alarm and warn of a hunger crisis that could impact tens-of-thousands locally. More than 150,000 Long Islanders across Nassau and Suffolk receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits every month and will be impacted by President Trump and Republicans' $300 billion cuts to SNAP and tax breaks for corporations and billionaires. As food insecurity rises and more Long Islanders are forced to rely on local food banks like Long Island Cares and Island Harvest, leaders in the industry are concerned about strains on the emergency food system that this bill could induce. 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The senator joined with church leaders and hunger advocates to say how this is a moral issue that we should all unite to stop, and Schumer called on the administration to reverse its hunger program cuts and for the NY House Republicans to stand against stealing from SNAP, which over 112,000 in the Capital Region rely on for food."},"AF4482AA-342C-43D8-9152-5A8A9B1525F7":{"TotalRows":72,"uid":"AF4482AA-342C-43D8-9152-5A8A9B1525F7","title":"Suffolk County Tariffs","summary":"Commack, NY","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"April 24, 2025","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/suffolk-county-tariffs","city":"Commack","county":"Suffolk","lat":40.84173583984375,"lng":-73.3072509765625,"description":"U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer stood at TandyWear in Commack, NY to discuss the effect of the tariffs on Long Island fashion brands and our nation's small buisnesses. The senator proclaimed the tariffs to be \"taxes for the business,\" and \"taxes for the customers.\" He brought up his plans to force a vote (S.J. Res. 49) in the Senate to end the trade war with a bipartisan coalition. 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The Republican plan to cut $880 billion from Medicaid would hurt more than 300,000 New Yorkers in the Finger Lakes and set back Upstate NY’s decades of efforts to combat the opioid crisis. "},"1B41468A-CD35-497B-BB49-CA7403A43286":{"TotalRows":72,"uid":"1B41468A-CD35-497B-BB49-CA7403A43286","title":"Syracuse Tariffs","summary":"Syracuse, NY","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"April 21, 2025","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/syracuse-tariffs","city":"Syracuse","county":"Onondaga","lat":43.04793167114258,"lng":-76.1790771484375,"description":"On April 21st, 2025, to kickstart National Cost of Living Week of Action, with Trump’s tariff war hammering Syracuse’s restaurants and small businesses, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer stood at Syracuse’s renowned Emerald Cocktail Kitchen with Central NY small business leaders who are feeling major hits to their bottom line due to tariffs. The senator said this chaotic, self-destructive tariff war has Upstate NY restaurants, local businesses, and working- and middle-class families footing the bill, with the average family in Central NY estimated to be hit with nearly $5,000 in higher prices per year.\r\nSchumer said every day this chaos continues it risks more than 16,000 jobs in Central NY in industries impacted by the tariffs and even more jobs in Upstate NY’s vital recreation and tourism industries. 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The senator called on NY House Republicans to block Trump’s plan to decimate Medicaid."},"33E95FB8-36FE-4A99-9BCB-D5A03673BD91":{"TotalRows":72,"uid":"33E95FB8-36FE-4A99-9BCB-D5A03673BD91","title":"Canandaigua VA Staffing Cuts","summary":"Canandaigua, NY","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"April 16, 2025","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/canandaigua-va-staffing-cuts","city":"Canandaigua","county":"Ontario","lat":42.89472961425781,"lng":-77.27265167236328,"description":"On April 16, 2025, With ‘DOGE’ and the Trump administration’s <a href=\"https://apnews.com/article/veterans-affairs-cuts-doge-musk-trump-f587a6bc3db6a460e9c357592e165712\">plans to fire over 80,000 workers at the Department of Veterans Affairs</a> (VA) looming, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today stood outside the Canandaigua VA to sound the alarm on the devastating impacts for the over 33,000 veterans in the Rochester-Finger Lakes region. 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Schumer said with DOGE and the Trump Administration's indiscriminate cutting, CHCs are at serious risk of the chopping block, but he is leading the charge to protect this lifeline for 80,000 in Central NY and millions across America."},"B7CB0927-D4A2-458B-9183-E60BBD11DAF6":{"TotalRows":72,"uid":"B7CB0927-D4A2-458B-9183-E60BBD11DAF6","title":"Suffolk County NIH Cuts","summary":"Cold Spring Harbor, NY","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"February 7, 2025","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/cold-spring-harbor-lab-cuts","city":"Cold Spring Harbor","county":"Suffolk","lat":40.85896682739258,"lng":-73.46832275390625,"description":"On Feburary 7th, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer stood at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to discuss recent NIH cuts which would put research centers like Cold Spring into jeopardy. Cold Spring Harbor Lab has developed life saving drugs that have saved many. 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He ended by urging for bipartisan support to reject the NIH cuts on the upcoming budget vote."},"CE23D2CF-C5B3-46E3-B6B7-14E0B158CCFB":{"TotalRows":72,"uid":"CE23D2CF-C5B3-46E3-B6B7-14E0B158CCFB","title":"Rochester Egg Prices","summary":"Rochester, NY","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"January 27, 2025","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/rochester-egg-prices","city":"Rochester","county":"Monroe","lat":43.14827346801758,"lng":-77.5779800415039,"description":"On Janurary 27th, 2025, amid the increasing price of eggs in the Rochester-Finger Lakes region and across Upstate New York, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today stood at Rochester’s beloved Jines Restaurant and called on HHS and the USDA to surge funding and get all hands on deck for coordinated federal response to stop the spread causing sky-rocketing egg prices and lower costs for families, diners, and local bakeries.\r\n“Everyone in Rochester has eaten at Jines at some point, but diners like Jines and families in Rochester have been shell-shocked by higher egg and grocery prices. Egg prices are skyrocketing because of bird flu, driving costs up for families, farms, diners, and small businesses. In November, a dozen eggs cost about $4 in NY which is already high, but now the average is nearly $6, and with bird flu getting worse this problem could quickly spiral into a crisis,” said Senator Schumer. “Last year I secured millions to help contain this disease and we need the new administration to surge biosecurity efforts to beat back bird flu. We need a robust, coordinated federal response to crack down on bird flu and I am committed to working in a bipartisan way with the new administration to get grocery prices lower and that starts with getting a handle on bird flu. The health of our livestock, our restaurants, and Rochester families’ wallets depend on it.”"},"1ECCCAC1-5190-4AC5-B3B8-976A48FC7481":{"TotalRows":72,"uid":"1ECCCAC1-5190-4AC5-B3B8-976A48FC7481","title":"Cheektowaga Egg Prices","summary":"Cheektowaga, NY","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"January 27, 2025","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/cheektowaga-egg-prices","city":"Cheektowaga","county":"Erie","lat":42.907684326171875,"lng":-78.75292205810547,"description":"On January 27th, 2025, amid the increasing price of eggs in Western NY and across Upstate New York amid the bird flu outbreak, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today stood at Cheektowaga’s beloved Alton’s Restaurant and called on HHS and the USDA to surge funding and get all hands on deck for coordinated federal response to stop the spread causing sky-rocketing egg prices and lower costs for families, diners, and local bakeries.\r\n“Alton’s has been a staple in Western New York for over 40 years, but recently restaurants like Alton’s and families in Buffalo have been shell-shocked by higher egg and grocery prices. Egg prices are skyrocketing because of bird flu, driving costs up for families, farms, diners, and small businesses. In November, a dozen eggs cost about $4 in NY which is already high, but now the average is nearly $6, and with bird flu getting worse this problem could quickly spiral into a crisis,” said Senator Schumer. “Last year I secured millions to help contain this disease and we need the new administration to surge biosecurity efforts to beat back bird flu. We need a robust, coordinated federal response to crack down on bird flu and I am committed to working in a bipartisan way with the new administration to get grocery prices lower and that starts with getting a handle on bird flu. The health of our livestock, our restaurants, and Western NY families’ wallets depend on it.” "},"9819ED82-0C0D-4B58-A38D-4588B822826B":{"TotalRows":72,"uid":"9819ED82-0C0D-4B58-A38D-4588B822826B","title":"Rep. George Latimer Swearing In","summary":"Rye, NY","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"January 26, 2025","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/rep-george-latimer-swearing-in","city":"Rye","county":"Westchester","lat":40.97330856323242,"lng":-73.68722534179688,"description":"Senator Schumer visted Westchester Community College in Valhalla Sunday afternoon at the Rye High School auditorium, January 26, 2025 for the ceremonial swearing in of longtime Rye resident and new NY-16 Congressman George Latimer."},"07E2F8E7-C371-4F49-A496-0C9B4F9D25F4":{"TotalRows":72,"uid":"07E2F8E7-C371-4F49-A496-0C9B4F9D25F4","title":"Rep. Pat Ryan's Swearing In","summary":"Hyde Park, NY","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"January 18, 2025","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/rep-pat-ryans-swearing-in","city":"Hyde Park","county":"Dutchess","lat":41.76869583129883,"lng":-73.9340591430664,"description":"Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer swore in Rep. Pat Ryan for his second full term in Congress. Sen. Schumer nominated Ryan to the United States Military Academy at West Point 25 years ago."},"46A0A773-059E-4E0B-ADA6-42B2AA3F1A02":{"TotalRows":72,"uid":"46A0A773-059E-4E0B-ADA6-42B2AA3F1A02","title":"Nassau County Holocaust Survivor Celebration","summary":"Merrick, NY","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"January 13, 2025","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/nassau-county-holocaust-survivor-celebration","city":"Merrick","county":"Nassau","lat":40.652076721191406,"lng":-73.56147003173828,"description":"On January 13th, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer attended a celebration for a 100-year-old Holocaust survivor ahead of Holocaust Rememberance Day. Celebrating the life of Pina Frassineti Wax who has lived on Long Island for decades, originally from Italy. The Senator honored Ms. Wax, while also recognizing all lives lost in the Holocaust. He honored survivors for their inspiring stories, while recognizing Ms. Wax's extraordinatry courage and contribution to our society and history."}}

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