The Latest Breaking News from Chuck Schumer

Former President Barack Obama tweeted on Friday that more than 47 million Americans, including one in five children, lack steady and affordable access to healthy food. Obama noted that more families are relying on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits as the cost of living continues to rise.

Federal judges have ruled that the Trump administration must continue funding SNAP during the government shutdown

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) accused House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) of withholding details of a Republican alternative to the Affordable Care Act, intensifying GOP tensions as health care costs loom as a 2026 election issue.

It's an attempt to make Republicans own more of the acute and escalating pain.

As funding for food aid program is about to be exhausted, Congress fails for 13th time to advance Republican bill

Democratic party leaders like Chuck Schumer refuse to endorse Mamdani, and the New York Times wrongly cautions against him. Both are wrong

ANALYSIS: Up until now, most of the American public has been insulated from the shutdown’s effects, Eric Garcia writes. But with SNAP recipients going hungry, labor groups demanding the government reopen and ongoing health insurance enrollment, Trump and Democrats might be forced to find a solution.

As the government shutdown stretches into another week, Senate Republicans are openly considering the "nuclear option," eliminating the filibuster in a bid to force through a funding bill.

Millions took to US streets to oppose authoritarianism as Democrats acknowledge ‘People want to see us fighting’