Every year, Chuck commits to traveling to all62 counties in New York to meet with constituents.
On February 5th 2018, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer stood with tens-of-thousands of Long Islanders having pre-paid their 2018 State and Local Property Taxes, in an effort to ease the pain of the new federal tax law. U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer today called on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to immediately grant Long Islanders and all New York residents, who paid their 2018 property taxes early, the ability to apply those taxes to their 2017 state and local tax deductions, even if their property taxes were not assessed. Schumer, the Senate Minority Leader said, this would allow these taxpayers to take a larger state and local deduction in 2017, before the harmful, new state and local tax deduction (SALT) cap takes effect.