Every year, Chuck commits to traveling to all62 counties in New York to meet with constituents.
On June 26, 2024, standing at Awestruck Ciders in Sidney, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer revealed how Upstate NY cideries are being hit with a convoluted federal ‘Bubble Tax’ increasing costs and hindering the production of new delicious bubblier ciders and ciders mixed with fruits that people love. Schumer is now pushing a new bill, the Bubble Tax Modernization Act, to ‘pop’ this arcane fed tax law to help cidermakers add more of the popular fruitier and bubblier ciders to their taps, boost farmers, and help grow next phase of Upstate NY’s booming craft cider industry.