Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is gearing up for an epic confrontation with counterpart Mitch McConnell, as the New York politician prepares his fellow Democrats to filibuster Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch and possibly shut down the government over a budget dispute. “They’re in charge. Government shuts down, it’s on their back. We have leverage,”…
Did Sen. Chuck Schumer’s Sunday night dinner on Manhattan’s Upper East Side degenerate into a shouting match with an acquaintance who admitted voting for Donald Trump? The New York gossip pages suggested that the Hilary Paley Byers, the daughter of Jewish CBS founder William S. Paley, started sparring with Schumer as they both dined at…
Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, called on Monday for the removal of Republican Representative Devin Nunes as chairman of the House of Representatives’ Intelligence Committee. Nunes, whose committee is investigating potential ties between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia, visited the White House the night before announcing he had information indicating Trump associates may have…
After President Trump’s effort to repeal and replace Obamacare came to naught, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer had a message for the beleaguered commander-in-chief: the art of the deal is different in Washington, D.C. “You cannot run the presidency like you run a real estate deal. You can’t tweet your way through it,” the New…
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Thursday he will vote ‘no’ on Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court and hinted he will force the vote to filibuster, requiring Republicans to garner 60 votes to confirm the candidate. Republicans control 52 seats in the Senate. In a speech in the Senate, Schumer cited the Gorsuch’s…
NEW YORK (JTA) — Sen. Charles Schumer slammed President Donald Trump’s budget proposal that could jeopardize a security assistance program for nonprofits that benefits Jewish institutions, citing threats to Jewish sites across the United States. “At a time where perpetrators are terrorizing the Jewish community across the country, even here in New York, it makes no…
Following President Trump’s controversial budget proposal boosting the military and slashing Meals on Wheels and other safety net programs, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said that his caucus is willing to shut down the government to defeat the White House’s blueprint. “If they put those poison pill amendments in and try to shove them down…
For liberal Jewish groups, David Friedman represents more than just a hawkish candidate for America’s top diplomatic position in Israel. The combination of his longstanding rejection of a two-state solution and his nasty attacks on the American Jewish left, have made Friedman the embodiment of all liberal Jewish fears over the election of Donald Trump….
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