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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., meets with reporters to criticize Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., for playing politics as they grapple with a solution to the debt ceiling deadline, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, April 17, 2023. Schumer also fielded questions on the extended absence of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who is recovering from shingles. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schumer reverses call to defund police with resolution against gutting FBI, Justice Department

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Health officials in San Francisco are sounding the alarm about an animal tranquilizer, xylazine or "tranq," that is being mixed into illegal drugs after a handful of overdose victims were found to have the substance in their system. (Photo credit: Todorean-Gabriel via Shutterstock) ** FILE **

Washington is getting antsy about ‘tranq,’ a nasty drug complicating fentanyl crisis

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., pauses as he talks to reporters about President Joe Biden's budget proposal at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 9, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schumer whacks House GOP energy package as ‘unserious’

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks with reporters following a Democratic Caucus meeting, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schumer says McCarthy giving Jan. 6 tapes to Fox News ‘one of the worst security risks since 9/11’

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 2, 2023. Schumer says the United States believes the unidentified objects shot down by American fighter jets over Canada and Alaska were balloons, though smaller than the China balloon downed over the Atlantic Ocean last weekend. Schumer tells ABC’s “This Week” that he was briefed on Saturday night by President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, after the incident hours earlier over the Yukon. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Schumer says China ‘humiliated’ by takedown of suspected spy balloons

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) **FILE**

Schumer: Implementing Biden wins will be the priority over the next two years

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Schumer defends Biden’s response to China’s spying; Senate to receive classified briefing on Feb. 15

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, of N.Y., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Schumer tells House GOP to ‘come out of hiding’ and show proposed spending cuts

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

The Federal Trade Commission building in Washington is pictured on Jan. 28, 2015. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Senate Dems ask FTC to probe gunmaker for alleged illegal marketing of assault rifles to kids

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during New York Gov. Kathy Hochul's inauguration ceremony, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023, in Albany, N.Y. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)

Schumer prods House GOP to reveal spending cuts they want in exchange for debt limit hike

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer is shown in this undated file photo. (Associated Press/File) **FILE**

Schumer blasts McCarthy, GOP after tense House speaker election

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer accompanied by his wife Iris Weinshall walk outside the chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Schumer promises bipartisanship, hopes next House speaker works with Dems

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., responds to questions about appropriations, relations with China, immigration, and her legacy as the Democratic leader, as she meets with reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022. Pelosi will step aside as speaker in the new Congress in January. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Pelosi, Schumer say Biden should run in 2024

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., speaks at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on March 3, 2021. Johnson, one of former President Donald Trump’s most vocal supporters, has decided to seek reelection to a third term, two Republicans with knowledge of the plan told The Associated Press on Friday, Jan. 7, 2022. (Greg Nash/The Hill via AP, Pool, File)

GOP’s fiscal conservatives flex muscle in spending fight

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., center, gestures during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 28, 2021, while working on a bipartisan infrastructure bill with, from left, Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H. Though elected as a Democrat, Sinema announced Friday, Dec. 9, that she has registered as an independent, but she does not plan to caucus with Republicans, ensuring Democrats will retain their narrow majority in the Senate. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

What now?: Sinema’s defection from Dems sends shock waves through Hill

By Tom Howell Jr. and Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks with reporters after Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock defeated Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a runoff election in Georgia last night, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. Democrats' new outright majority in the Senate means the party will no longer have to negotiate a power-sharing deal with Republicans and won't have to rely on Vice President Kamala Harris to break as many tie votes. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Pennsylvania Avenue Freeze-Out: Boss Schumer working only with ‘non-MAGA’ senators after Warnock win

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

The U.S. Capitol is seen on a sunrise in Washington, Friday, Nov. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

Congress faces busy lame-duck session as it returns to Washington

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters as the Senate works to pass a stopgap spending bill that would fund the federal government into mid-December, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schumer claims he delivered to Manchin ‘good Democratic unity’ on energy deal that crumbled

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., speaks during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee hearing to examine social media's impact on homeland security, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Schumer keeps dodging questions about backing Kyrsten Sinema against a primary challenger in 2024

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks with reporters following a closed-door caucus lunch, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 22, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Congress is back: McConnell, Schumer trade barbs over student debt relief, inflation

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times