Every year, Chuck commits to traveling to all62 counties in New York to meet with constituents.
On July 19, 2021, Senator Schumer brought U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo to Malta to announce that GlobalFoundries plans to build a second chip fab in Malta, New York. This comes after more than a year of major advocacy to expand domestic semiconductor manufacturing, research and development (R&D), and jobs and make historic investments in overall federal R&D and innovation, which eventually culminated in Senate passage of the U.S. Competition and Innovation Act that will invest $52 billion in the domestic semiconductor industry.