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As ICE Refuses To Be Transparent On Its Plans For Orange County, Senators Say Enough Is Enough, Stop The Secrecy, Work With Local Leaders, And Give Assurances There Will Be No ICE Facility In Orange County Earlier This Year, After Community-Wide And Bipartisan Opposition, ICE Backed Off Plans To Convert Another Orange County Warehouse – In Chester – Into An ICE Mass Detention Facility – After Schumer Sounded The Alarm With Local Leaders And Community Members Schumer, Gillibrand: No ICE Facility... Read More

Schumer Says New EUV Center Will Bring Companies From Across The World To Albany, While Boosting Existing NY Companies From Micron To IBM – And Helping Upstate NY’s Emerging Semiconductor Superhighway Attract New Investments And Create New Good-Paying Jobs EUV Technology Is Essential To The Semiconductor Industry And Albany Research Will Allow Breakthroughs In Chips Critical To National Security And American Competitiveness Schumer: World’s Most Advanced Microchips Will Be Innovated Right Here... Read More

Schumer Says Four Corporate Giants Dominate Meat Market, Rigging The System Against Central NY Families, And Squeezing Farmers Who Keep Just 16 Cents Of Every Dollar Spent On Food New Schumer Bill Will Break Up Big Monopolies, Lower Prices For Consumers, And Restore Real Competition To Help Boost Farmers And Smaller Meat Producers Schumer: New Bill Will Bring Down Costs For Families At The Grocery Store As Central New Yorkers experience some of the fastest price growth for groceries in the... Read More

Last Year Trump And Republicans Made The Largest Cut To SNAP In History – NEARLY $200 BILLION – Meaning Now Capital Region Counties Will Need To Find A Whopping $4.4+ MILLION To Keep Nutrition Assistance Flowing To Families, Seniors, and Veterans In Need Including $588,000 For Rensselaer County And $783,000 For Albany County House And Senate GOP Have Refused To Reverse Cruel SNAP Cuts; Schumer Calls On Republicans To Work With Democrats To Write A Farm Bill That Restores SNAP & Helps 103,000... Read More

Fed $$ Comes From NSF Engines Program Schumer Created In His CHIPS & Science Law University Of Rochester’s Laser Development Expansion Would Bolster Cutting-Edge Research, Create Good-Paying Jobs, Strengthen The Domestic Supply Chain, And Grow The Rochester-Finger Lakes’ Economy Schumer, Gillibrand, Morelle: New Fed $$ Will Boost Rochester’s Leadership In Research, Development And Manufacturing Laser Technology U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, and U.S. Congressman... Read More

Micron Is Also Increasing Its U.S. Investment To $250 Billion—Up From $200 Billion—Schumer Is Pushing For That Additional $50 Billion Work To Happen In New York Schumer Worked To Convince Micron To Invest In Upstate NY, And Passage Of Schumer’s CHIPS & Science Law Sealed The Deal For Micron To Invest In America And Select Syracuse Area To Make Largest Private Sector Investment Ever In New York, Creating Upwards of 50,000 Jobs Schumer: First Concrete Pour Marks Concrete Progress Towards... Read More

Senator Fought So L3Harris Could Compete For Major Military Contracts And Army Has Since Then Been Able To Purchase Thousands Of Cutting-Edge Radios From Rochester Company Schumer: Contract Is A Win For Our National Security, L3Harris, And Rochester’s Economy U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today announced L3Harris Technologies in Rochester has been selected by the U.S. Army to manufacture Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) manpack Falcon® systems under an $84 million purchase order. “Once... Read More

Thanks To Schumer-Secured Funding, New BOCES Satellite Campus In Owego Will Help Local Workforce Prepare For Jobs In Manufacturing, Hospitality, Agriculture, And More Tioga Regional Career And Technical Education Center Can Provide Training To 150 High School Students During The Day And 50 Adult Community Members At Night Schumer: New Facility Is A Win-Win For Workforce Development And Tioga County Economy After delivering $811,000 in federal funding for Broome-Tioga BOCES to expand onto a... Read More

New Schumer Legislation Will Rebuild American Manufacturing Capacity In Industries Critical To Our Economy, Including Microelectronics, While Reducing Dependence On Foreign Manufacturers Schumer Additionally Delivered $1 Million For Binghamton University’s Nanofabrication Laboratory, Which Provides Hands-On Training For Students To Secure Jobs In Fast-Growing Chip Industry Across Upstate NY And In Other High-Demand Industries That New Schumer Legislation Will Boost Schumer: New Legislation Would... Read More

Trump Administration Terminated Collective Bargaining Agreements For Nearly All Federal Employees, Including 1,100 DoD Civilian Employees At DFAS & AFRL In Rome And Thousands More Across NY Schumer Advances Effort To Protect DoD Federal Employees’ Collective Bargaining Rights By Prohibiting Use Of Fed $$ In Annual National Defense Bill To Implement Trump Executive Order Terminating Rights For Federal Labor Unions Schumer: Hands Off DFAS & Rome Labs Workers’ Union Rights! After the Trump... Read More

Last Year Trump And Republicans Made The Largest Cut To SNAP In History – NEARLY $200 BILLION; In New York, SNAP Is Administered By Counties – Meaning The Rochester-Finger Lakes Region Will Need To Find A Whopping $5.6+ MILLION To Keep Nutrition Assistance Flowing To Families and Veterans In Need, Including $250,000 For Orleans County And $3 MILLION For Monroe County House And Senate GOP Have Refused To Reverse Cruel SNAP Cuts; Schumer Calls On Republicans To Work With Democrats To Write A Farm... Read More

Last Year Trump And Republicans Made The Largest Cut To SNAP In History – NEARLY $200 BILLION; In New York, SNAP Is Administered By Counties – Meaning Western New York Will Need To Find A Whopping $9.8+ MILLION To Keep Nutrition Assistance Flowing To Families and Veterans In Need, Including $211,000 For Wyoming County And $6.3 MILLION For Erie County House And Senate GOP Have Refused To Reverse Cruel SNAP Cuts; Schumer Calls On Republicans To Work With Democrats To Write A Farm Bill That... Read More

Fed Funding Will Support Conversion Of Four Intersections To Roundabouts, Installation Of New Traffic Signals, Construction Of Shared-Use Path, And More Funding Comes From Highly Competitive BUILD Program, Which Schumer Secured Historic Increase For In Bipartisan Infrastructure & Jobs Law Schumer: A Transportation Transformation Is Coming To Westchester! U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today announced $25 million in federal funding for the Villages of Tarrytown... Read More

Announcement Includes Fed $$ From FAA’s Airport Improvement Program And Airport Infrastructure Grant Program Which Senators Boosted In Bipartisan Infrastructure & Jobs Law And FAA Reauthorization Law Schumer, Gillibrand: Fed $$ Helping Upstate NY Reach New Heights! Today, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announced $63,692,917.00 in new federal funding to upgrade airport facilities and equipment at Upstate New York airports. This federal funding was awarded... Read More

Schumer Has Delivered Billions From CHIPS & Science Law, Which Senator Wrote And Passed Into Law, To Boost Chip R&D And Manufacturing Across New York, Including At Albany NanoTech, GlobalFoundries, And Micron Schumer: World’s Smallest Chip Achieved In Upstate NY… Again! After delivering billions in funding from his CHIPS & Science law to boost chip R&D and manufacturing across Upstate NY, including at Albany NanoTech, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today applauded IBM’s announcement... Read More

Senators Say Funding Will Be Used to Provide Technical Assistance And Resources To Help Communities Clean Up And Reuse Polluted and Contaminated Sites Fed Support Includes Millions From Bipartisan Infrastructure & Jobs Law Schumer Led To Passage In Senate Schumer, Gillibrand: Cleanup And Reuse Of These Community Eyesores Across NY Begins Today! U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today announced $14,316,198 in federal support for thirteen communities across New... Read More

TTM’s 200,000+ Square Foot Expansion Makes Central NY Facility One Of North America’s Biggest And Most Advanced Printed Circuit Board Manufacturing Sites, Bringing Total TTM Central NY Workforce To 1,000 Workers Schumer Helped Land TTM’s Major Expansion In Town of Dewitt Thanks To Prestigious “Tech Hub” Designation He Secured; Schumer Also Called On DoD To Invest Tens of Millions In Central NY To Boost Domestic Production Of Advanced Printed Circuit Boards Needed For Defense Industry — Which... 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 Finger Lakes 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 families in... Read More

Two Erie County Residents Have Tested Positive For Measles This Month After No Cases For Eight Years And County Officials Worry There Are More Unreported Cases – As Nationwide Cases Exceed 2,000 For Second Year In A Row As Secretary Kennedy Puts Upstate New Yorkers’ Public Health At Risk By Unraveling Public Health Infrastructure And Promoting Anti-Vax Conspiracies, Vaccination Rates Plunge Below CDC Herd Immunity Threshold; Schumer Calls On Trump Admin To Boost Resources For Measles Monitoring... Read More

Communities Throughout Upstate NY – From North Country To Finger Lakes To Central New York To Capital Region – Win Critical Fed $$ For Community Projects That Will Upgrade Water Infrastructure, Replace Aging Bridges, Build New Childcare Facilities, Boost Workforce Development Programs & More Schumer And Gillibrand Fought To Reauthorize And Expand Funding For NBRC In 2024, And Successfully Protected It From Trump’s Proposed Elimination Last Year Schumer, Gillibrand: Fed $$ Is Headed To... Read More