Schumer said that while the Continuing Resolution was "certainly bad," a shutdown "would be 15 or 20 times worse." ...

Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader, said a government shutdown would have been “10 or 20 times worse” than the Republican stopgap spending bill. By Robert Jimison Reporting ...

Schumer has defended his decision, arguing that the optics of a government shutdown were worse for Democrats than if the bill were allowed to pass. The only reason that Republicans needed the ...

Moreover, as Schumer and Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) have noted, a shutdown would have given Trump (and Elon Musk) virtually unchecked power to gut the federal government, halt necessary social ...

Senate Democrats say allowing a GOP funding bill to pass has allowed the party to keep their focus on Trump as his tariffs ...

Sen. Chuck Schumer's (D-N.Y.) leadership in the Senate was a lot easier when President Joe Biden was in the White House. Now ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer faced some tough questions during a stop by NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday. A week after his controversial decision to break with his party and approve a GOP ...

Many House and Senate Democrats, who want to try to block President Trump’s agenda at any cost, are questioning his ...

Schumer was joined by nine others. Schumer has lived through multiple government shutdown fights during his more than two-and-a-half decades in the Senate and felt that his party wasn’t in a ...

After lying low from cable TV in 2024, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is returning to the airwaves. Why it ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has refused to step down from his leadership position, as Democratic infighting worsens while the party struggles to agree on messaging to challenge ...

Schumer said a shutdown would have been catastrophic for Democrats policy goals, giving President Donald Trump's administration carte blanche to dismantle portions of the federal government they ...