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” ...

Schumer said he is the "best at winning Senate seats" amid questions about his leadership after he voted to advance a GOP ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON – Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., continues to face backlash from members of his party after he voted in favor of a spending bill that averted a government shutdown and ...

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 ...

I hated it, but it does far less damage [than a shutdown].” “We’re going to fight, we’re going to fight them on tariffs, we’re going to fight them on Social Security,” Schumer insisted ...

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