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Washington Post: White House, GOP In Disarray Over Coronavirus Spending Plan As Deadline Nears On Expiring Emergency AidNBC News: 'What In The Hell Are We Doing?' Senate Republicans Clash Over Coronavirus ReliefCNN: Republicans And White House Divided On Stimulus Proposal: 'I'm Not A No, I'm A Hell...

Washington, D.C.—Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer today spoke at the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration Committee hearing on 2020 general election preparations regarding the need for Congress to provide additional federal resources in the next COVID-19 relief legislation to ensure...

Washington, D.C.—Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor, outlining how Republican delays and disarray are preventing needed assistance to the American people who continue to struggle through the public health and economic crises brought forth by COVID-19....

Study: 41% Of Black-Owned Businesses, 32% Of Latino-Owned Businesses & 36% Of Immigrant-Owned Businesses Have Permanently Shuttered During The Pandemic Bill Will Open Up Billions In New Credit Opportunities For Black, Latino And Low-Income Communities Through Neighborhood Lenders Rep....

Washington, D.C.—Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer today appeared on CNN’s New Day and called for Senate action on the House-passed Heroes Act. Senator Schumer also condemned the delayed and partisan, behind-closed-doors efforts of Leader McConnell and Senate Republicans to draft an...

Washington, D.C.—Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor, urging Senate action on the House-passed Heroes Act and condemning the months of needless, partisan delays by Leader McConnell and Senate Republicans. Leader Schumer also called for a serious bipartisan...

Washington, D.C.—Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer today appeared on MSNBC’s All In With Chris Hayes and railed against the partisan, behind-closed-doors efforts of Leader McConnell and the Senate GOP to draft a lackluster bill to address the coronavirus pandemic and instead called for Senate...

Washington, D.C.—Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor, urging Senate action on the House-passed Heroes Act and condemning the months of needless delays by Senate Republicans. He also decried the Trump administration’s ill-intentioned efforts to shield COVID...

Washington, D.C.—Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor, commemorating the life of civil rights icon Congressman John Lewis and discussing the ongoing fight for racial equality and justice. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:...

Brooklyn, N.Y.— Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer today released the following statement on the passing of Congressman John Lewis:  “There are very few people who you can say truly changed the world for the better; John Lewis is certainly at the top of that...

Washington, D.C.—Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senate Committee on Rules and Administration Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-DE), Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), and Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) today released a letter...

Brooklyn, N.Y.— Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer today on a press call with AFSCME President Lee Saunders and front-line workers discussed the urgent need to pass at least $1 trillion in aid to states, cities, and towns upon return from the Senate’s two-week July recess: Since the COVID-19...

Glens Falls, N.Y.— Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer today at a press conference in Glens Falls, NY responded to the Trump administration hiding CDC data on coronavirus cases from the public: “This crisis is the worst health crisis we've had in a hundred years since the Spanish Flu hit America...

Leader Schumer And Senate Democrats Today Announced The Economic Justice Act, A Major New Proposal To Make $350 Billion In Immediate And Long-Term Investments In Black Communities And Communities Of Color Senate Democrats’ Economic Justice Act Would Seek To Reprogram Hundreds Of Billions Of...

Washington, D.C.— Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer today released following statement in response to the Trump administration’s proposal to weaken environmental standards: “President Trump is once again coddling corporate polluters instead of fighting for the public’s health and...

Washington, D.C.— Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer today released the following statement in response to President Trump’s commutation of his longtime friend’s prison sentence for felony crimes:“The American ideal of equal justice under the law is once again being undermined by a lawless...

Washington, D.C.— Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer today released following statement after the Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. Vance and Trump v. Mazars USA, LLP that no one, not even the president, is above the law:“No matter how much he wishes it to be true, President Trump is not king. In...

Washington, D.C.— Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer today released following statement after the Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. Vance and Trump v. Mazars USA, LLP that no one, not even the president, is above the law:“No matter how much he wishes it to be true, President Trump is not king. In...

Washington, D.C.— Senate Democrats today wrote Attorney General William Barr, calling for the immediate, full implementation and enforcement of the Death in Custody Reporting Act.“One stark, staggering fact is that there exists no reliable metric on the number of law enforcement-related deaths that...

Washington, D.C.— Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer today released following statement after the Small Business Administration publicly released some data about businesses and non-profits that received loans from the Paycheck Protection Program:“While it’s a good start that the administration...