Chuck Schumer

Chuck Schumer’s guardian act was never about Israel. It was about power - opinion

Both halves of that promise are now broken. Schumer was not guarding Israel, and he was not guarding American Jews. He was guarding his caucus and his own gavel.

 U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) holds a press conference after the Senate passed a continuing resolution to avoid a shutdown of the federal government, in Washington, U.S., November 15, 2023.
US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks at The People V. The Powerful rally at the Detroit Opera House on July 18, 2026 in Detroit, Michigan. Sanders, US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and others joined El-Sayed to rally the crowds.

Bernie Sanders urges Democratic Party to ban AIPAC and super PACs from primaries, pass amendment

US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks during a news conference on protections for access to in vitro fertilization on July 23, 2026 at the US Capitol in Washington, DC.

Trump says Jewish Senator Chuck Schumer 'turned Palestinian' amid remarks at correspondents' dinner

Jay Clayton, US President Donald Trump's nominee to be Director of National Intelligence, testifies during a Senate Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Trump spy nominee Jay Clayton faces tense hearing after refusing to say Joe Biden won in 2020


Sen. Chuck Schumer makes his Broadway debut

In a one-minute-long video posted to his Instagram account, Schumer pops up from the crowd to uproarious applause.

 U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) holds a press conference after the Senate passed a continuing resolution to avoid a shutdown of the federal government, in Washington, U.S., November 15, 2023.

US House Republicans' Israel-only aid bill faces opposition in Senate

Democrats said the Republican bill would be dead on arrival in the Senate, even if it passed the House.

 Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) stands behind the rostrum as fellow Democratic senators speak to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, U.S., October 31, 2023.

‘Hamas will be washed away’: Top congressional leaders pledge support for Israel

Each speaker expressed unstinting support for Israel’s war aim, to destroy Hamas. President Joe Biden, who is flying to Israel on Wednesday, has also said that Hamas must be eliminated.

 Visitors walk outside the U.S. Capitol building as House Republicans continue to work to choose a new Speaker of the House, in Washington, U.S., October 16, 2023.

Schumer says US Senate will move quickly on Israel

A confirmation hearing for Jack Lew, the nominee to be the next ambassador to Israel, is scheduled on Wednesday.

 Majority Leader of the US Senate Chuck Schumer (left) with President Isaac Herzog. October 15, 2023

‘As a Jew, I had to visit Hamas victims,' Schumer says in Tel Aviv

Schumer and a four-member bipartisan delegation to Israel met with victims of the attack as well as with top Israeli officials.

 CURRENT US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is among the top Democrats who opposed the 2015 JCPOA.

Schumer group: More than just another Senate delegation - analysis

The Senate Majority Leader and his fellow representatives are sending a message to Israel, to its critics in America, and to the international community.

 US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and other American representatives on a visit to Israel, October 15, 2023

Yeshiva U to receive $1.5 million to fund auditorium renovations

Yeshiva University's Main Hall is set to see renovations that will include restorations of its stained glass windows and artistic architecture.

THE YESHIVA University High School for Boys in New York

Pelosi, Schumer: Supreme Court poised to inflict greatest rights restriction in last 50 years

“If the report is accurate, the Supreme Court is poised to inflict the greatest restriction of rights in the past 50 years – not just on women but on all Americans," said Schumer and Pelosi.

 US Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) joins demonstrators during a protest outside the US Supreme Court, after the leak of a draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito preparing for a majority of the court to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision later in 2022.

Chuck Schumer urges US aid for Ukraine: 'There's a Holocaust going on'

“When you see that people are lined up on buses just to leave a conflict zone, and Putin’s artillery shells those buses, that is just below humanity, below dignity.”

US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) walks through the US Capitol in Washington, US, December 17, 2020.

Chuck Schumer recites Shema prayer, joins Biden's plea for unity

Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer recited the Shema prayer at the National Prayer Breakfast.

Sen. Chuck Schumer at a news briefing with new Democratic senators at the US Capitol, Jan. 21, 2021.