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Trump Admin Announced HHS-Wide Layoffs, Cutting 10,000 Staff, Including Vital Support For The 9/11 Health Care Program That Helps Sick First Responders & Survivors Get Treatment For Cancer, Respiratory Illnesses, And More This Is The Second Time The Trump Admin Has Slashed Support & Fired Staff Who Are Key For The World Trade Center Health Program, After Trump & Musk Also Sunk The Permanent Funding Fix Schumer Secured For Program Last Year Schumer To Kennedy: Twice You Have Betrayed... Read More

Trump Admin Announced HHS-Wide Layoffs, Cutting 10,000 Staff, Including Those In The 9/11 Health Care Program The Administration Had Reinstated Staff From World Trade Center Health Program, But Firing People at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Means 9/11 Survivors Won’t Get Care They Need Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand blasted the Trump administration’s decision to slash staff that provide critical support for the World Trade... Read More

Trump’s Tariffs – Set To Start Tomorrow – Could Raise Prices On New Yorkers As Much As $6,500 For Gas, Groceries, Cars And Everyday Goods – All While Decimating Small Businesses, Killing Good-Paying Jobs, Shrinking 401K’s And Damaging Upstate NY’s Vital Tourism Industry Schumer Says Stock Market Is Already Hitting Lowest Point In Years Due To Trump Tariff Chaos, Hurting Upstate Seniors’ Retirements – And Leading To Fears Of A Recession Schumer: Trump’s Tariffs Mean Higher Prices, Lower Life... Read More

Schumer Exposes Final Leg Of Quiet Plan In House Financial Services & Senate Banking To Overturn CFPB Rule Limiting Excessive Bank Fees, That Would Cost New York Households More—Because Most Upstate NY Residents Have Bank Account  Plan To Overturn CFPB Overdraft Fee Rule Would Allow Banks To Extract $5 Billion In Excessive Fees – But, WORSE, Would Open Door To Even More Fees Across NY; Schumer Announces Full Opposition, Urges NY House Republicans To Vote “NO” On Tuesday  Schumer: Quiet... Read More

Last Month House Republicans QUIETLY Passed The First Step For The Biggest Cut To Medicaid In American History - $880 BILLION Or 1/3 Of Medicaid Spending—Which Would Hurt Millions Of New Yorkers Including Up To 182,234 Across Staten Island—MANY OF WHOM ARE IN ELDER CARE, LIKE NURSING HOMES & ASSISTED LIVING    SI Nursing Homes And Rehab Centers Have Medicaid Paying For Patient Care; If House Republicans Don’t Stand Up To Dangerous Medicaid Cuts, Families Would Have To Pick Up The Whole Bill... Read More

Trump Administration Suddenly Cut Billions In Fed Funding For State Health Services Yesterday Which Will Reduce Disease Preparedness For Everything From Measles To HIV, Cut Support For Addiction Programs, Slash Mental Health Services, Jeopardizing Jobs And Risking a Public Health Crisis Schumer, Gillibrand: Stopping The Spread Of Measles And Cutting Off Help For Addiction Recovery Is Not Government Waste After Trump abruptly cut billions of dollars from state health services, U.S. Senator Chuck... Read More

Social Security Services Are Breaking Down For New Yorkers Who Rely On Monthly Checks To Live, With NY Offices Closing, Websites Crashing, Hours Long Wait Times, And Now ‘DOGE’ Firing 7,000+ SSA Workers Who Help Seniors, Disabled, & Families Get Their Benefits Senator Breaks Down Impact Region By Region In NY Of ‘DOGE’ Destructive Attacks On Social Security Benefits For 4.3M NY-ers That Threatens Their Monthly Checks And Services Schumer: ‘DOGE’ Cabal Needs To Get Their Hands Off NY Seniors’... Read More

Closure Of Offices Could Mean End To Programs That Provide Grants And Loans To Farmers, Help Rural Communities Recover From Natural Disasters Today, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, and Representative John Mannion are demanding answers on the Trump administration's reported plans to potentially close the statewide offices for the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), Farm Service Agency (FSA), and USDA Rural Development (RD) in Syracuse. President Trump and... Read More

NY’s International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1783, Representing Hundreds Of Electrical Workers, Who – Without Action – After A Lifetime Of Hard Work Would Have No Pension Benefits Remaining By 2030 As Schumer’s First Major Act As Majority Leader, He Secured Pension Fix So Union Members Could Get Hard-Earned Pensions & Relief They Need And Earned Schumer: Hudson Valley IBEW Union Workers & Families Can Breathe Sigh Of Relief With The Restored Pensions They Rightfully... Read More

In Recent Days, Trump Signed Executive Order To Dismantle Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund, Which Provides Hundreds Of Millions Of Fed Investment Annually To Lenders To Increase Access To Capital For Underserved Areas Like Upstate NY & Rural Communities To Help People Buy Homes, Boost Small Biz, And More Schumer Shows How These Devastating Cuts Would Be Felt From Buffalo To Albany, In Every Region – CDFI’s In Upstate NY Have Helped 12,000+ Upstate Businesses Each... Read More

Designation Will Boost Clinical Opportunities, Reputation, And Research $$ For U Of R’s Wilmot Cancer Institute, Upstate NY’s Largest Cancer Provider, Which Has Made Significant Cancer Discoveries And Treats Thousands Each Year Schumer, Gillibrand, Morelle All Urged NCI Director To Give This Designation, And Schumer Personally Called Former NIH Director To Advocate For It Schumer, Gillibrand, Morelle: Cancer Center Designation Will Boost Fed Support For Wilmot’s Cancer Research And... Read More

Senator Schumer said, “Congresswoman Lowey was the heart of the Hudson Valley and my friend of over 40 years. She was a trailblazer who ran the Appropriations Committee with amazing effectiveness. So many stand on her shoulders and her impact continues to resonate years after her retirement. Above all else though, Congresswoman Lowey was a kind hearted person, always putting others first and caring for their well-being. Her work helped improve the lives of millions, especially in the Hudson... Read More

‘DOGE’ Just Slashed NOAA & National Weather Service Workforce, With More Cuts Rumored; Services Are Already Being Disrupted In NY, With Albany Now Having To Stop Weather Balloon Launches, Great Lakes Offices Closing, And Meteorologists Fearing Less Accurate Storm Predictions For Upstate NY Schumer Demands Answers On Depth Of These Cuts For Upstate NY And Says We Must Restore & Maintain Critical Weather Services We Need To Keep Communities Protected From Snow Storms, Flooding, Tornadoes,... Read More

Amid Massive Cuts From Trump Admin’s ‘DOGE,’ A Pentagon Proposal Has Emerged To Lay Off 40% Of Watervliet Arsenal Civilian Workers – Nearly 300 In Cap Region, Many Of Whom Are Vets – And Decimate Production Schumer, In Letter To Head Of Army, Says These Massive Cuts Will Set America’s National Security Back Years, Degrade Army Readiness, Destroy America’s Locally-Sited Industrial Base, & Hurt The Military’s Capacity To Respond To Current And Future Conflicts  Schumer: Watervliet Arsenal Has... Read More

Governor Hochul Directs DPS and NYSERDA to Conduct Urgent Review of Tariff Impacts and Provide a Transparent Accounting of Effects on Energy Prices and Power Supply Reliability The Letter Sent to DPS and NYSERDA Can be Viewed Here Governor Kathy Hochul and Senator Charles Schumer today announced steps to review the harmful impacts of the federal energy tariffs and the Canadian retaliation that threaten to drive up electricity and heating costs, destabilize our energy markets, and hurt families... Read More

1980 American Men’s Ice Hockey Team – Comprised Of Amateur Athletes – Defeated The Mighty Four-Time Olympic Champion Soviet Union Red Army Team In Lake Placid, NY In Game Referred To As “Miracle On Ice” & Went On To Win Olympic Gold Medal – An Achievement That Sparked An Explosion Of American Pride And Patriotism Schumer Introduced Bipartisan Legislation To Celebrate This Accomplishment And Honor Olympic U.S. Men’s Ice Hockey Champions With Congressional Gold Medals, Including One To Be... Read More

Big Flats Social Security Office Is Only Office In Chemung County, And It Was Just Listed On ‘DOGE’s Wall Of Receipts For Chopping Block, Senator Says Staff & Thousands Of Southern Tier Seniors & Families Who Rely On Office To Help With Social Security Checks Need Answers Now Senator Says Taking Away The Only In-Person Social Security Office For Miles Would Hurt Our Seniors And Others Who Need In Person Services, And Will Make It More Difficult For New Yorkers To Access Their Hard-Earned... Read More

This Week GSA Listed The Leo W. O’Brien Federal Building In Albany And 400+ Other Fed Properties As ‘Designated For Disposal,’ But Mysteriously Removed List On That Same Day – Creating Confusion & Concern Building Could Close And Services Could Get Cut For Capital Region O’Brien Building Hosts Offices For Social Security, IRS, Military Processing And Its Presence Has Been Essential To Providing Federal Services To Albany Area For Over 50 Years Schumer: Capital Region Families, Seniors Can’t... Read More

Tiffany Ramos, A Rome, NY Native & SUNY Morrisville Graduate, Worked At The USDA Since 2021, Helping Farms, Businesses & Residents Of Rural Communities Across Upstate, Until She Was Unfairly Fired As “Probationary” Amid Blind Rash Of DOGE Cuts Senator Says Callously Firing Dutiful Public Servants Like Tiffany And Slashing USDA Programs That Farmers & Rural Areas Depend On Does Nothing To Stop Government Waste, And Shows Why Efficiency Demands A Scalpel, Not A Chainsaw Schumer: We... Read More

Jessica Martinez From Peekskill, NY Is A Cancer Survivor With Multiple Sclerosis Who Needs Medicaid To Live & Care For Her Children, And If These Cuts Were To Go Through, She Fears Health Care For Families Like Hers Would Be First On The Chopping Block Just Last Week House Republicans Passed The First Step For The Biggest Cut To Healthcare And Medicaid In History - $880 BILLION - Which Could Hurt Millions of New Yorkers Including 240,000+ in Rockland & Westchester Counties Schumer:... Read More