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Weighing in on the Trump administration’s actions of the past week, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said he didn’t know President Trump would “screw up so soon.” The comment, published Monday by Semafor, followed an issued-then-rescinded Office of Management and Budget memo that called for a federal loan and grant pause, causing a political uproar, and the weekend announcement of weighty tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, which also resulted in mass frustration. “There’s a long way to go. This is going to be a pattern,” he added. On Wednesday, Schumer went after Trump over the memo and gave...

Senator Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat and majority leader for a few more weeks, is not known for keeping his thoughts to himself. But he has been uncharacteristically restrained about offering up his views on even the most eyebrow-raising potential Trump administration nominees emanating from Mar-a-Lago. “We’re going to wait and see what happens in each of these instances before commenting,” Mr. Schumer told reporters this week, passing up a television camera-ready opportunity he would normally grab to slip a knife into any of the president-elect’s cabinet picks. He is keeping quiet for a reason, and it is not...

Chuck Schumer is doing us a favor. Often, parties try to obscure or deny their radical plans prior to an election, but the Senate majority leader is being more candid. In a session with reporters at the Democratic National Convention, Schumer (D-NY) suggested that — should Democrats win the White House, Senate and House in November — he would seek to end the filibuster for purposes of passing voting rights and abortion legislation. This would be an inflection point in American government. There’s no nuking the legislative filibuster a little bit. The end run around the Senate’s long-standing requirement for...

So is every top Democrat who accused President Trump of Russian collusion. “A single, ominous question now hangs over the White House: What could possibly cause President Trump to put the interests of Russia over those of the United States?” Senator Schumer insinuated in 2018. Why is Schumer putting Russia’s interests ahead of those of the United States by blocking Nord Stream 2 sanctions on Putin’s pet pipeline into Europe? Schumer, along with a number of other top Democrats, is a beneficiary of campaign contributions from top Democrat fundraiser Vincent Roberti whose lobbying firm was paid over $8.5 million by...

An injustice against our military and veterans' communities is being prepared in the halls of Congress at the same time the men and women of the National Guard stand post outside the Capitol building to protect lawmakers from an unexplained threat. Senator Chuck Schumer is demanding the President forgive up to $50,000 of student debt for some 43 million Americans who borrowed for college beyond their means. More than nine million Americans have defaulted on their education loans, and an estimated one-third of those who borrowed federal money for college never completed their course of study. President Biden is willing...

Today the Supreme Court is hearing arguments about a law in Louisiana that requires abortion doctors to have admitting privileges to local hospitals.  Pro-life proponents of the law, which is sponsored by Democratic Louisiana State Senator Katrina Jackson,  argue this requirement protects women with emergency medical care in case of abortion complications. Pro-abortion advocates argue the law is simply a way to make it more difficult for women seeking abortions to obtain them from providers. More on Jackson from Fox News:  As a pro-life Democrat, Louisiana State Sen. Katrina Jackson isn’t an anomaly in her home state, but she is in...

Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz hit back at what he saw as an unfair accusation from Democratic New York Sen. Chuck Schumer that Cruz would allow child pornography on the grounds that it qualifies as free speech, in a Senate Judiciary hearing. “I understand that in my absence, Sen. Schumer very kindly gave a lecture on civility and encouraged me to not go over the top,” said Cruz. “He then in the same breath accused me of supporting child pornography,” he continued, adding, “so I appreciate that demonstration in senatorial restraint from the senior senator from New York.” Earlier in...

As such, federal and local officials heard an earful from residents Thursday. “Please don’t leave us,” a weeping Donna Solli pleaded to Sen. Chuck Schumer in front of her damaged Neptune St. home. “I live alone down here.” Schumer hugged Solli, a Transportation Department worker, and tried to comfort her. “I know what you’re going through, sweetheart,” he said.

The Homeland Security Department is lumping New York City together with parts of New Jersey to assess how much anti-terror cash to send to the area - a stunning shift that lawmakers fear could take an even bigger bite out of the Big Apple's funding. Under the change, New York is the only major city this year to be saddled by a secondary metropolitan area, one across state lines - Newark and Jersey City in this case. "We are looking at the New York metropolitan area, which includes northern New Jersey, for the purposes of assessing risk," Homeland Security Secretary...

Presidents Report Ken Mathison. SCOPE President So far the Republican Party has given us a couple of Duds in their choices for competition against Hillary Clinton and Eliot Spitzer. Westchester DA Jeanine Pirro is the Party candidate of choice, so far, to challenge Hillary but she is at best Hillary Lite and some say she is just a Hillary clone. Her record is decidedly anti-gun, having supported Governor Pataki’s gun package in 2000 and she has recently publicly stated “the assault weapon ban should never been allowed to expire”. She also proudly proclaims her “Broad Blue Stripes” on other social...

Tue Feb 11, 3:23 PM ET New York Senators Hillary Clinton (news - web sites) and Charles Schumer hold a news briefing in the Capitol, February 11, 2003. The two Democratic senators announced that about $2 billion of the $21.4 billion New York recovery package will be freed up to help both New York State and New York City cover expenses relating to the September 11, 2001 attacks. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque