President Trump and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer have an on-again, off-again relationship, and now it is off-again — after Schumer criticized Trump’s new policy toward Iran. Schumer, who in 2015 opposed the nuclear deal reached by the Obama administration, has since changed his mind and he now opposes Trump’s efforts to make changes in…
NEW YORK (JTA) — Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer exhorted the State Department not to send back to Iraq a trove of artifacts that belonged to its now exiled Jewish community. In a letter shared with JTA, the New York Democrat on Tuesday urged Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to work with Jewish groups and…
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer urged President Donald Trump on Tuesday to bring together both major parties to devise a solution to gun violence after this week’s attack in Las Vegas in which 59 people were killed and more than 500 injured. “I am requesting the president to call us together, Democrats and Republicans, to…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., the minority leader in the U.S. Senate, has called on the Trump administration to recognize the Kurdish bid for independence, a position embraced internationally virtually only by Israel. “Monday’s historic vote in Iraqi Kurdistan should be recognized and respected by the world, and the Kurdish people of northern…
Chuck Schumer was caught on a live microphone boasting that President Trump likes him – another sign of a warming relationship between the White House and the Senate minority leader on important issues like the budget and immigration. “He likes us. He likes me, anyway,” said the New York Democrat, talking into a hot mic…
President Trump and Senator Chuck Schumer have for a change decided to say positive things about each other – in a possible sign of a warming relationship between Senate Democrats and the White House. “He seemed super upbeat,” one Capitol Hill staffer told Politico, referring to Trump’s response after cutting a debt limit deal with…
Chuck Schumer is having a moment. The Senate Minority Leader kept his fellow Democrats unified to help sink President Trump’s effort to repeal Obamacare, with colleagues praising his grit and strategy. “I think he makes it look easier than it is,” Connecticut senator Richard Blumenthal told The New York Times, speaking about Schumer. “He makes…
Every pundit from Boston to Seattle will tell you the state of the Democratic Party these days: It’s bad. The party got its clock cleaned in the 2016 general election and, even in the full-blown midst of the “Resistance” movement against President Donald Trump, it’s now lost four straight special elections around the country. After…
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