Can be... Yeah, sure. But the overwhelming majority of the time adding government bureaucracy and waste to any issue makes it worse.
Really it only can be a “force for good” when it restricts its operations to what the founders determined were its purview.
Anything beyond that starts to distort the interactions of people in detrimental ways.
Shumer is just another arrogant liberal who thinks “the right people in power” can make everything better. And, of course, he’s one of “the right people”.