The Latest Breaking News from Chuck Schumer

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday blasted President Donald Trump over an impending lapse in food assistance, accusing the White House of "using Americans as hostages" by refusing to extend Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits on Nov. 1 while the government shutdown grinds on.

Democrats are making the GOP own the food aid freeze for 42 million Americans.

Enhanced subsidies keeping premiums affordable for millions will expire, threatening to more than double what households pay out of pocket

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) accused House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) of withholding details of a Republican alternative to the Affordable Care Act, intensifying GOP tensions as health care costs loom as a 2026 election issue.

It's an attempt to make Republicans own more of the acute and escalating pain.

As funding for food aid program is about to be exhausted, Congress fails for 13th time to advance Republican bill

Democratic party leaders like Chuck Schumer refuse to endorse Mamdani, and the New York Times wrongly cautions against him. Both are wrong

ANALYSIS: Up until now, most of the American public has been insulated from the shutdown’s effects, Eric Garcia writes. But with SNAP recipients going hungry, labor groups demanding the government reopen and ongoing health insurance enrollment, Trump and Democrats might be forced to find a solution.

As the government shutdown stretches into another week, Senate Republicans are openly considering the "nuclear option," eliminating the filibuster in a bid to force through a funding bill.

Millions took to US streets to oppose authoritarianism as Democrats acknowledge ‘People want to see us fighting’

Amid the Trump shutdown, a Senate fight erupts over paying federal workers. See why Democrats blocked the GOP bill and if a deal can be reached to pay feds soon.