Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) condemned President Trump’s move to fire more than a dozen watchdogs at several federal agencies overnight, calling it a “chilling purge.”
Sen. Chuck Schumer revealed his significant, behind-the-scenes role in persuading President Biden to drop out of the presidential race.
That’s when Schumer’s office got an email out to his inauguration list, advising attendees that since the event was to be moved, their invites could not be used to access the new indoor venue.
Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, the top Democrat on the Finance Committee, confirmed on Friday that then-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer privately urged President Joe Biden to abandon his 2024 campaign in July,
Schumer said said he received nonstop calls with concerns that this could shut down critical operations and cancel construction projects.
President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday announced it rescinded a memo his team sent out regarding the federal grant freeze.
A federal judge has temporarily halted the Trump administration's freeze on federal grants and loans, minutes before the wide-reaching directive was set to go into effect.
Democrats described Trump's late-night firing of the federal agency inspectors general as an 'attack on Democracy'.
The dismissals began Friday night, according to two people cited by The Associated Press. An email sent by one of the fired inspectors general said "roughly 17" inspectors general had been removed.
President Biden signs the Social Security Fairness Act, reversing unfair provisions and boosting benefits for millions of current and retired public service workers.
Two Republicans, Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, broke ranks to oppose Hegseth.