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'Health care calamity': Schumer torches fractured GOP as ACA clock ticks down
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer leaned heavily into Republican infighting on Wednesday, seizing on GOP divisions to pressure lawmakers into backing a three-year extension of Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies.
Chris Van Hollen chooses his words carefully when I ask him about Chuck Schumer. Yet the Maryland Democrat’s ambivalence about the Democratic Senate minority leader is clear. In the wake of the recent shutdown’s bitter ending,
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) announced Thursday that Democrats will force Republican senators to vote next week on a three-year extension of enhanced health insurance premium
Now Schumer, for the first time in his career, appears imperiled. Only 32% of New Yorkers hold a favorable view of him, per a November Siena poll — his lowest rating, by far, since he became a senator. He is a former majority leader who still leads the Democrats, but none of his legislative accomplishments seem to matter much to voters anymore.