Every year, Chuck commits to traveling to all62 counties in New York to meet with constituents.
On April 21, 2025, Just two weeks after Congressional Republicans voted to advance the largest cut to Medicaid in American history, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer stood with Finger Lakes people in recovery and nurses at the Finger Lakes Area Counseling & Recovery Agency (FLACRA) to call on Congressional Republicans to block Trump’s plan to decimate Medicaid. 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.Â