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Trump Promised “Not One Penny” Of Federal Money Would Be Used For His Ballroom — Now Republicans Want Taxpayers To Spend $1 Billion On Trump’s Vanity Project While NY Families Struggle To Afford The Basics Schumer To NY Republicans: Why Are You Choosing Trump’s Chandelier Over New Yorkers’ Childcare, Trump’s Ego Over Their Electric Bills, And Trump’s Palace Over The People’s Priorities? Schumer: New Yorkers Don’t Want This Ballroom Blitz – They Want Lower Costs As Republicans rush to try to pass... Read More

Schumer Says Four Corporate Giants Dominate Meat Market, Squeezing Farmers And Ranchers Who Keep Just 16 Cents Of Every Dollar Spent On Food And Rigging The System Against Southern Tier Families New Schumer Bill Will Break Up Big Monopolies In Meat Packing That Lead To Higher Prices For Consumers & Hurt Farmers And Restore Real Competition To Help Farmers And Smaller Meat Producers While Lowering Prices Schumer: New Bill Will Bring Down Costs For Families At The Grocery Store As Southern... Read More

As Gas Skyrockets Over $4, And American Troops Remain In Harm’s Way, NY House Republicans Refuse To Check Trump’s Reckless War of Choice – Schumer, Standing With Local Vets And Families Struggling From Gas Prices, Says Enough Is Enough And Vows To Force Votes Every Week To End The War New Report Shows American Families Have Paid $16 Billion More For Gas Since Trump Started War In Iran, Including $517+ Million In NY Alone Schumer: Iran War Has Cost NYers Half A Billion At The Gas Pump – This Must... Read More

Schumer Says Four Corporate Giants Dominate Meat Market, Squeezing Farmers And Ranchers Who Keep Just 16 Cents Of Every Dollar Spent On Food, And Rigging The System Against WNY Families New Schumer Bill Will Break Up Big Monopolies In Meat Packing That Lead To Higher Prices And Restore Real Competition To Lowering Costs Schumer: New Bill Will Bring Down Costs For Families At The Grocery Store As Western New Yorkers face some of the fastest price growth for groceries in the country, U.S. Senator... Read More

Schumer Delivered Major Fed $$ To Transform A Vacant Building In Downtown Cortland Into One-Stop Shop For Mental Healthcare And Long-Term Home For Mental Health Department Cortland County Mental Health Department Is Major Rural Behavioral Healthcare Provider In CNY That Treats More Than 1,000 Patients Every Year Schumer: New Mental Health Building Will Help Cortland Meet Growing Demand For Mental Health Services After launching his push to deliver federal funding four years ago, U.S. Senator... Read More

New Congressional JEC Analysis Shows NY Families – Already Struggling With Rising Costs – Paid Hundreds More For Home Heating Oil Last Month, Up Nearly 40% After Trump Began His Reckless War In Iran Schumer: Cost-Beleaguered New Yorkers Are Footing The Bill For Trump’s Iran War On Their Home Heating Bills As Trump’s reckless war of choice in Iran reaches its second month, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer revealed that families in New York paid nearly $250 more for home heating oil in March 2026... Read More

Local Leaders Had The Rug Pulled Out From Under Them When Trump Admin Abruptly Derailed The $28M Grant For The Rhinecliff Station Project – With No Explanation – Potentially Setting Back Years of Progress To Finally Give Dutchess County The Modern Train Station It Deserves Rhinecliff Station Is One Of NY’s Busiest, But Has Fallen Into Disrepair – Schumer Fought For Years To Prioritize & Secure Funding And Now Project Is In Final Phases – But Trump Admin Unwarranted Delays Risk All Of That... Read More

Trump Order For National Parks Created Senseless Bureaucratic Red Tape That “Right To Run” Organizers Were Told Would Result In Them Not Getting Their Permit In Time This Year For Weekend Celebration Schumer Immediately Sprung To Action Calling On the National Park Service To Expedite & Approve A Special Permit So The 10th Annual “Right To Run 5K/19K Race Weekend” Could Continue As Planned Schumer: Seneca Falls “Right To Run” Celebration Is Back On! After a senseless Trump Executive Order... Read More

National Park Service Said It Cannot Approve Permit For Planned Seneca Falls Event Celebrating Women’s Rights Because Of Trump Executive Order Forcing Review Of How Events At National Parks Characterize American History, Throwing New Hurdles And Delaying Permit Process 10th Annual “Right To Run 5K/19K Race Weekend” Celebration Draws Hundreds Of Athletes, Tourists, And Spectators To Downtown Seneca Falls To Commemorate Pivotal Role In Women’s Rights Movement; Schumer Calls On NPS To Approve... Read More

New Congressional Report Shows Families Already Struggling With Rising Costs & Have Paid $8.4 Billion More For Gas Since Trump Began His Reckless War In Iran, Including Over $265 Million In NY Alone Despite Trump’s Promise To Lower Price Of Gas, The Average Price In NY Is Currently At Whopping $4+ Because of Trump’s Chaotic Economic Policies And Reckless War In Iran Schumer: Trump’s Iran War Is Costing NYers Millions As Trump’s reckless war of choice in Iran reaches its second month, U.S.... Read More

Sudden Closure Announcement For The Schenectady VA Clinic Has Prompted Major Concerns From Capital Region Vets That Care Could Be Disrupted, Have Veterans Facing Long Wait Times, Or Major Inconveniences For Receiving The Healthcare They Earned After Serving Our Country Senators Say Capital Region Vets Need Answers and Assurances They Will Continue To Get The Local, Convenient, High-Quality Healthcare They Deserve Before Any Plan Can Move Forward Schumer, Gillibrand: We Must Protect Healthcare... Read More

Schumer Helped Create The NSF Engines Contest – Through His CHIPS & Science Law – To Bolster Innovation And Supply Chains And Grow Local Economies Senator Has Long History Of Supporting Binghamton Battery Hub; Schumer Delivered Prestigious Federal Tech Hub Designation And Helped Binghamton University-Led Battery Research Hub Win Inaugural NSF Engines Competition Schumer: Binghamton Secures $45 Million Award And Advances As National Leader In Battery Technology U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer... Read More

Schumer Says Reassigning 9/11 Health Program Staff To ICE Is A Disgrace And Betrayal Of First Responders Who Put Their Lives On The Line Schumer Calls On Trump And Secretary Kennedy To Immediately Return All Reassigned Staff To The World Trade Center Health Program Schumer: 9/11 Survivors Are Dying Of Cancer And Fighting To Breathe — Stripping Their Care To Staff ICE Is Callous, Senseless, And Cruel NEW YORK, NY – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today called on President Trump and HHS Secretary... Read More

Latest Jobs Data Shows Major Cuts To Federal Jobs In Every NY Metro Area After Trump & DOGE Brutally Slashed Vital Federal Programs New Yorkers Rely On Every Day In Upstate Regions Like Buffalo, Albany And Syracuse, Communities Have Seen Devastating Losses Of 500+ Jobs – The Equivalent Of Mass Layoffs At A Major Factory – Hurting The Economy, Seniors, Vets And Families That Rely On Fed Services Schumer: Trump And ‘DOGE’ Mindlessly And Chaotically Slashed Jobs And It’s New Yorkers Who Are... Read More

Washington, D.C. – Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke on the Senate floor calling for the US Chamber of Commerce to tell its member companies to pass tariff refunds to their consumers, who bore the brunt of the tariffs. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here: Yesterday, a federal judge sent the Trump administration a very clear message: refund the tariffs. In the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling invalidating a large portion of the President's... Read More

Last Week Revealed Border Patrol Plans A Detention Center In Rochester Downtown Federal Building, Potentially Disrupting Critical Services, A Daycare, & Federal Court The Community Relies On Rochester Residents & Local Leaders Already Oppose This Plan, And Lawmakers Say It’s Unacceptable & Blast The Lack Of Transparency – Now They Are Demanding Answers, And That The Public To Be Allowed To Make Their Voices Heard And Stop This Plan From Advancing Schumer, Gillibrand, Morelle: Keep... Read More

Local Leaders Unlawfully Denied Answers To Basic Questions As DHS Contradicts Itself And Refuses To Be Transparent On What Its Plans Are In Orange County – Reps Say We Can’t Rely On Words Through Anonymous Sources, We Need To Be Certain This Mass Detention Facility Will Not Move Forward Schumer & Ryan Demand An End To The Secrecy And Concrete Answers On What DHS’s Plans Are; Reps Call For An Independent Investigation From Watchdog Into DHS’s Disastrous Management In Orange County Schumer,... Read More

Aleshandra Fernandes’s Job Working On Offshore Wind Projects Has Faced Repeated Delays Because Of Trump’s Continued Attacks On Offshore Wind And American Energy At Large Schumer Says Trump Admin’s Reckless Attempts To Halt Offshore Wind Projects, Including New York’s Empire Wind 1 And Sunrise Wind, Kills Jobs Like Aleshandra’s, Raises Energy Costs & Threatens Grid Reliability Schumer: Interrupting Offshore Wind Projects Not Only Puts Electricity For 1.1 Million Homes At Risk, But It Impacts... Read More

Ben Pearson Owns A Rochester Small Biz That Makes Science Kits For Kids Across America, But Tariffs Have Cost Him Nearly $1M More A Year And Forced Him To Lay Off Employees Just To Stay Afloat After SCOTUS Just Last Week Struck Down Trump’s Tariffs, Schumer Says Trump Needs To Listen To The Small Businesses He’s Hurt With His Tariff Tax And Return The $$ He Cost Them Schumer: Trump’s Tariffs Are Raising Costs For Upstate NY – And It Needs To Stop NOW On the heels of the Supreme Court striking... Read More

Investment In New Bus Maintenance & Storage Facility Will Pave The Way For Future Expansion Of Transit Service In Oneida County & Throughout Mohawk Valley Funding Was Secured Under The FY2026 Buses & Bus Facilities Program, Which Schumer Fought To Boost In Bipartisan Infrastructure & Jobs Law Schumer, Gillibrand: Oneida County Is In The Fast Lane For A New Bus Facility! U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today announced that they have secured a... Read More