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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is scrapping book tour events this week as progressives fume over his maneuver to avert a partial government shutdown last week, a source told The Post.

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 ...

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) said Thursday that he plans to support the GOP funding bill, lowering the odds of a government shutdown. “For sure the Republican bill is a ...