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Over The Summer, Trump Rushed To Pass Largest Cut To SNAP In History – Nearly $200 BILLION - To Fund Tax Breaks For Billionaires With Those Cuts Beginning Now Just Before Thanksgiving; Food Banks Are Already Seeing Surging Need As Grocery Prices Skyrocket From Tariffs Schumer Says These Cruel SNAP Cuts Hurt Our Families, Farmers, & Food Banks, And Now Is Announcing New Legislation To Keep Southern Tier Families Fed, Reverse Anti-Hunger Cuts Schumer: Thanksgiving Is A Time For Us To Take Care... Read More

Over The Summer, Trump Rushed To Pass Largest Cut To SNAP In History – Nearly $200 BILLION - To Fund Tax Breaks For Billionaires With Those Cuts Beginning Now Just Before Thanksgiving; Food Banks Are Already Seeing Surging Need As Grocery Prices Skyrocket From Tariffs Schumer Says These Cruel SNAP Cuts Hurt Our Families, Farmers, & Food Banks, And Now Is Announcing New Legislation To Keep Western NY Families Fed, Reverse Anti-Hunger Cuts Schumer: Thanksgiving Is A Time For Us To Take Care Of... Read More

Bipartisan Bill Will Allow Unflavored & Flavored, Whole & Reduced Fat Milk To Be Offered To Students In School Cafeterias Across New York State Schumer Says This Is Win-Win To Support Upstate NY Dairy Farmers And Bring Nutritious New Milk Options To School Cafeterias Schumer: Got (Whole) Milk? More Milk Options Coming To Students Across New York Today, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer announced the Senate passage of the bipartisan, bicameral Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act he supported, which... Read More

Without Warning, County Clerks Were Notified That Ceremonies For Hundreds of Families That Have Gone Through The Lengthy Citizenship Process Have Been Canceled In Westchester, Rockland, Schenectady, Washington, Broome, Tompkins, And Onondaga Schumer: These New Yorkers Were Days Away From Becoming Citizens, Ripping That Away Is Just Plain Cruel Amid reports that the Trump administration has indefinitely canceled naturalization ceremonies across New York, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer... Read More

The funding was secured and distributed under the FY25-26 Low or No Emission Grant Program and the FY25 Buses & Bus Facilities Program Minority Leader Charles Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD), today announced $100,812,140 in federal funding to modernize bus fleets and expand low- and no-emission transit across New York State. The grants, made... Read More

President Trump Admitted This Past Week Grocery Bills Are Surging Because Of His Tariff War, And Local North Country Businesses & Watertown Families Are On The Frontlines After Summer Tourism Plummeted And Costs Skyrocketed Schumer Says It’s Time For NY House Republicans To Stand Up For NY Families & Take Up His Just-Passed Bipartisan Senate Bill To End Trump’s Canadian Trade War Once And For All & Return Tariff Powers Where They Belong: In Congress Schumer: Trump’s Terrible Tariffs... Read More

Battles Of Saratoga Marked America’s First Decisive Victory And Saratoga National Historic Park Is Heart Of NY’s Revolutionary War History – And For Years Benefited From Fed $$ To Enhance The Site As Key Economic Driver For Capital Region As We Approach The 250th Anniversary Of Our Country, Schumer Says We Cannot Let This Fund Expire And Announces “America the Beautiful Act” To Bolster Historic Sites Like Saratoga Battlefield And Increase Funding To Preserve Our National Parks In Preparation For... Read More

Today, Minority Leader Charles Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced that they secured $104 million for critical local projects in New York State in the FY2026 Agriculture-Rural Development and Military Construction-Veterans Affairs funding bills. The senators personally delivered funding for these projects as congressionally directed spending items. “I am proud to have secured more than $100 million in funding for essential... Read More

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

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

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

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