Schumer voted against the bill during the final vote, but its passage only required a simple majority compared to the earlier ...

N.Y., said he would not resign and defended his vote in favor of the spending bill to avoid a government shutdown.

Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader, said a government shutdown would have been “10 or 20 times worse” ...

Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., was denounced by members of his own party as well as liberal media commentators after he voted to support a Republican spending bill to avoid a government shutdown.

On a day of white-hot anger among many Democratic lawmakers and activists, some of whom gathered outside of Mr. Schumer’s Brooklyn home to protest his decision to shrink from a shutdown fight ...

The Democratic base wants a fight. Chuck Schumer won’t give it to them. The Senate minority leader on Thursday backed away from the shutdown confrontation that many liberal voters and activist ...

Schumer said that while the Continuing Resolution was “certainly bad,” a shutdown “would be 15 or 20 times worse.” ...

That feeling was justified the next day when Schumer turned around to say that he would vote in favor of advancing the bill rather than allowing a shutdown. "I believe allowing Donald Trump to ...

But a shutdown, Schumer said "would have devastation like we have never seen.” He said it would have given the Trump administration the freedom to slash programs it views as nonessential ...

If the government had shut down, Trump would have effectively painted his opponents as the obstructionists. Schumer Saved the Democrats It’s a perfectly normal time on Capitol Hill. It’s a ...