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As New York Families, Seniors, And Small Biz Owners Find Out They May Lose Healthcare Or Face Astronomical Premiums, House Republicans Have Been On Vacation For Over A Month And Trump Is Bailing Out Argentina And Building New Ballroom While Refusing To Negotiate With Dems To Fix The Healthcare Crisis Schumer: Republicans Must Act To Address ACA Premium Crisis They Created With open enrollment for health insurance starting today for New Yorkers and millions of Americans, U.S. Senate Minority... Read More

Nearly 3 Million New Yorkers Rely On SNAP To Put Food On The Table, But Trump Is Now Denying Funding, Despite His Own USDA Saying They Could Keep Funds Flowing Schumer and Gillibrand are pushing for legislation that would make sure SNAP & WIC continue uninterrupted during the Republican government shutdown Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) held a virtual press conference to demand the Trump administration stop cruelly withholding... Read More

In Less Than 10 Days, New Yorkers Begin Picking Health Insurance For Next Year, But For Many Their Only Option Is To Pay Thousands $$ More Per Month Because Republicans Refuse To Extend The Tax Credits Over 20 Million Americans Rely On 80% of Americans Want To Extend The ACA Tax Credits, But House Republicans Have Been On Vacation For Over A Month, And Trump Refuses To Even Sit Down With Democrats – Meanwhile, New Yorkers In Every Region Are Getting Letters & Seeing Skyrocketing New... Read More

“Window Shopping” Period for 2026 Health Insurance Just Opened For New Yorkers And Many Getting Walloped With Sticker Shock From Skyrocketing Premiums Caused By GOP Not Extending The ACA Tax Credit – Look Here For Examples Region By Region Of New Bills NY Families Face, Up To $1,000+ More Every Single Month For Healthcare Nearly 80% of Americans, Including 60% Of Republicans, Want Congress To Extend ACA Tax Credits To Lower Healthcare Costs For 24 Million Families – Meanwhile, Republicans Refuse... Read More

Schumer Helped Create NSF Engines Contest Through His CHIPS & Science Law & Last Year, Schumer-Supported And Binghamton University-Led Battery Research Hub Won Inaugural NSF Engines Competition University Of Rochester’s Proposed Laser Development Expansion Would Bolster Cutting Edge Research Creating Good-Paying Jobs, Build A Laser Science Talent Pipeline, Bolster Supply Chain, And Grow Rochester-Finger Lakes Economy Schumer: Rochester Advances As National Leader In Laser Technology U.S.... Read More

For Months, Schumer Has Warned Of Looming ACA Tax Credit Cliff, But GOP Voted Against Extending Vital Healthcare Subsidies THREE TIMES; Now, New Yorkers Are Receiving Letters Of Their Skyrocketing Health Insurance Rates, While Hospitals Suffer From Medicaid Cuts And Thousands Risk Losing Health Coverage Average Family From Western NY To North Country Could See Health Insurance Spike Over $3,000 A Year If Healthcare Tax Credits Expire, Senator Demands Action With Upcoming Government Funding Bill,... Read More

Sidney Culvert Project Is A Key Piece Of The Plan To Strengthen Infrastructure & Flood Mitigations In Village Of Sidney, Which Has History Of Devastating Flooding Due To The Lower River Street Neighborhood’s Proximity To Susquehanna River & Weir Creek FEMA Recently Pulled The Rug Out From Delaware County — Denying Request For Extension, Putting Project, Funding And Flood Mitigation Efforts For Delaware County In Jeopardy Schumer To FEMA: Protect Sidney Residents And Businesses From... Read More

With $250,000 In Fed Funding Secured By Schumer, Riverkeeper Launches Fully-Revamped And Expanded Water Quality Portal, Which Shows An Interactive Map Along The Hudson River — From The NY Harbor To The Adirondacks — Which Shows Where It Is Safe To Swim, How Clean Drinking Water Is, Health Of The Region’s Fish, And More Senator Says: Now More Than Ever We Must Invest In Science To Ensure Safety Of Our Waters & Environment, And To Turn The Tide On Pollution In The Hudson Schumer: We Must... Read More

Trump & NY House GOP Rushed To Pass Largest Healthcare Cut In History To Fund Tax Breaks For Billionaires – Now NY Hospitals Are Beginning To Feel The Impact – With St. Mary’s Listed As One Of NY’s Top Financially Distressed Rural Hospitals Schumer Announces New Legislation – Standing With Frontline Capital Region Doctors & Nurses – To Make Healthcare More Affordable, Reverse GOP Cuts Before Permanent Damage Is Done And 1.5 Million New Yorkers Lose Healthcare, And Extend ACA Tax Credits... Read More

When Army Announced It Planned To Shut Down Clarkson University’s Long-Established And Successful “Golden Knight” Battalion, Schumer Immediately Sprung Into Action Rallying Community Leaders And Demanding The Army Reverse Its Plans Schumer: Victory! Clarkson University’s Superb SROTC Will Continue Training North Country Cadets To Become U.S. Army Officers Following his relentlessly advocacy, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today announced the Army has reversed course and will retain Clarkson... Read More

U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today announced he has secured a meeting in Plattsburgh between Plattsburgh officials and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers next month, regarding the former Air Force Base. Town of Plattsburgh Supervisor Michael Cashman had asked Schumer for assistance in assessing the condition and scope of the Cold War-era infrastructure, and the senator worked for weeks to help get the USACE to agree to send out a team of engineers to see the site firsthand and provide technical... Read More

Laborers’ Local No. 91 Pension Plan Represents Hundreds Of Construction Who – Without Action – After A Lifetime Of Hard Work Would Have No Pension Benefits Remaining By The End Of The Year As Schumer’s First Major Act As Majority Leader, He Secured Pension Fix in The American Rescue Plan So Union Members Could Get Hard-Earned Pensions & Relief They Need And Earned Schumer: Niagara County Construction Workers Can Breathe Sigh of Relief With Pensions They Rightfully Earned Restored U.S.... Read More

Canadians’ Opinions Of Americans Are At Historic Lows & United States Is The Only Country Where International Tourism Is Expected To Drop –A Whopping $12.5 BILLION; With Upstate NY On The Frontlines As One Of The Places Most Reliant On Canadian Summer Tourism Boom To Sustain Small Businesses & Jobs Senator Will Force A Vote When The Senate Returns To End Trump’s Ill-Conceived Trade War With Canada, And Demands NY House Republicans Stand Up For Upstate NY Schumer: We Must End Trump... Read More

Schumer Says FEMA Funding For School District Is Crucial Step For Getting Kids Back Into Their School And Reimbursing For Tremendous Costs Incurred By The District From The Flooding During Tropical Storm Fred, And For Steuben County From Tropical Storm Debby Schumer: Fed $$ Will Deliver Much-Needed Additional Aid For Steuben County Following years of advocacy to help Steuben County in its flood recovery, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today announced the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)... Read More

With Trump’s tariffs rising costs for Finger Lakes farms, small businesses, and farm winery vineyards, which are simultaneously suffering from the lack of Canadian tourists and the drop in export sales opportunities to Canada, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer this week met with Finger Lakes farmers and business owners on the frontlines of Trump’s destructive tariff war in Yates County:   “Finger Lakes farmers and small business owners are on the frontlines of Trump’s destructive trade war. Earlier... Read More

Trump & Congressional Republicans Rushed To Pass Largest Healthcare Cut In History To Fund Tax Breaks For Corporations & Billionaires – Standing At Garnet Health Medical Center-Catskills Which Already Has Been Forced To Reduce Essential Medical Services In The Rural Catskills & Layoff Staff In The Hudson Valley Citing These Cuts – Schumer Says Enough Is Enough, We Must Reverse Rural Hospital Cuts & Protect The 1.5 Million New Yorkers At Risk Of Losing Healthcare Schumer... Read More

‘DOGE’ Has Fired Thousands Of Social Security Workers, Creating Massive Strain On Workforce- Creating Chaos At Top Levels, Amid Website Crashes, Overwhelmed Phone Lines, & Confusion Over Plans To Close Local Offices Schumer Says We Need To Be Investing To Reduce Wait Times & Hiring Workers To Make Social Security More Efficient– Announces New Bill To Counter Social Security Cuts & Chaos  Schumer: We Must Protect & Invest In Social Security For Capital Region Seniors  On Save... Read More

Trump & Congressional Republicans Rushed To Pass Largest Healthcare Cut In History To Fund Tax Breaks For Corporations & Billionaires – And Now Panic Is Setting In For Republicans As Local Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Rural Health Clinics, & Mental Health Providers Could Be Decimated And 1.5 Million New Yorkers Risk Losing Healthcare Schumer Announces New Legislation – With Frontline Mohawk Valley Doctors & Nurses – To Make Healthcare More Affordable, Reverse GOP Cuts Before More... Read More

Oneonta Job Corps Center Provides Training To Nearly 300 Students Every Year In Healthcare, Construction, And Other Fields That Need Skilled Workers, But For Months Has Been Stuck In Limbo After Trump Called For All Centers To Close – Despite Longstanding Bipartisan Support  Schumer Says Shutting Down Job Corps Would Be A Gut Punch To Local Worker-Starved Businesses; Senator Says Senate Successfully Included Funding For Job Corps In A Bipartisan Markup, And Now He Is Calling On The House GOP To... Read More

Earlier This Year, Trump Terminated Nearly $20M In Fed Grants For NY – Including $8+M For Finger Lakes Region – Which Help Hire Mental Health Professionals In Rural, Traditionally Underserved School Districts Schumer Says With Mental Health Issues Skyrocketing For Students, And School Starting Later This Month, We Can’t Afford To Rip 250+ Mental Health Professionals Out Of Rochester-Finger Lakes Schools Impacting 27,000+ Students Schumer: We Must Protect Mental Health Resources For Rural... Read More