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Schumer-Created Programs— AFG & SAFER—Are Critical Funding Streams That Have Provided Nearly $1 Million To Warren & Washington County Fire Departments In Just The Past Three Years To Staff And Equip Firefighters – But Without Fed Action This Funding Will Run Out In 2023 As Majority Leader, Schumer Has Shepherded Legislation To Save These Programs To The Senate Floor And Will Work To Pass This Bill This Month And Show Who Stands With Firefighters  Schumer:... Read More

Schumer Says 60+ Elf Bars Have Been Confiscated In Fulton Schools This Year Alone - With Hundreds More Across Syracuse and Central NY Schools - Filling The Addictive and Damaging Void Of Juul For Kids With A Potentially More Dangerous Knock Off Made in China Senator Has A Strong History Of Fighting E-Cig Marketing Targeting and Addicting Kids; But Elf Bar Could Be Even Worse, Skirting U.S. Law With Inappropriate Youth-Targeted Advertising On Socials Like Insta, TikTok—Not TV Or Papers;... Read More

Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Law Schumer Led To Passage Contains Billions To Upgrade Rail Across U.S. And Key New “Buy America” Requirements Schumer Fought For That Can Be A Huge Boon For Alstom’s Hornell Facility, As One Of The Only Domestic Rail Car Manufacturers   Now Schumer Brings USDOT Top Brass To Alstom In Hornell For The First Time To See How Southern Tier Workers Are Primed To Further Bring Rail Car Manufacturing Back To America  Schumer... Read More

Schumer’s Historic CHIPS & Science Bill Has Already Spurred Thousands Of Good-Paying Jobs And Hundreds Of Billions In Investment For Upstate NY—Including Micron’s Game Changing $100B Investment In CNY Now He Wants The Head Of The National Science Foundation To Come To Syracuse, The Epicenter Of Upstate’s Growing Semiconductor Industry, To Push For Further Fed Investment In STEM Job Training So Upstate Workers Are Ready To Build The Future Of Technology Schumer To NSF:... Read More

Fort Drum Is In The Final Rounds Of Selection For The Army’s New Multi-Domain Task Force To Address New Global Threats, Which Would Bring Millions In New Infrastructure And Potentially Thousands Of New Soldiers To The North Country Base Schumer Has Been Fighting Non-Stop To Elevate Fort Drum, And As Decision Gets Closer, He Again Calls Army Secretary Wormuth To Highlight Base As Ideal Spot For Next Phase Of Army’s Growth To Combat New National Security Threats From Countries Like... Read More

East Williston FD Needs 27 New Self-Contained Breathing Apparatuses Because The Old Ones Are Aging Out AND Other LI Depts Need New Equipment To Keep Pace With Tech & The Times – This Is All At Risk Unless Schumer-Created Programs Called ‘Assistance To Firefighters Grants’ & SAFER Are Restored By Congress; They Go Dark At Year’s End & Future Uncertain Without Fed Help, LI Taxpayers Will Shoulder Singular Cost Of Expensive Equipment Used Almost Daily On... Read More

Reps Express Support For Local Union Workers Claiming Fluor Marine Propulsion Is Inappropriately Moving Jobs From New York to Non-Union Facility In Pennsylvania – Resulting In Potentially Significant Loss Of Union Jobs At Knolls Union Says Fluor Marine Propulsion Is Hurting New York Workforce By Violating Local 147 Contract And Undermining President Biden’s Pro-Union Directive Schumer, Gillibrand, Tonko: FMP Must Reverse Course And Keep Family-Wage Jobs & This Critical Work Right... Read More

Ithaca Is Among The First In The Nation To Tap The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Grants Program To Use Innovative Technology To Improve Public Transit And Safety Senators Say $1.7 Million SMART Grant Will Put Ithaca In The Fast Lane For Smarter Traffic Signals And Safer Streets, Paving The Way For A Brighter Future And A Faster Commute Schumer, Gillibrand: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Is Helping Greenlight The Future Of... Read More

Schumer Has Campaigned For Sgt. Henry Johnson, An African American WWI Hero, Who Was Denied Recognition Due To Racism and Segregation; Now Securing His Name On Louisiana Base Currently Named After A Confederate Soldier GeneralIn 2015, After Years of Schumer’s Advocacy, The White House Posthumously Awarded The Medal Of Honor To Sgt. Henry Johnson For His Heroics In Fighting Off Dozens Of German Soldiers And Schumer Has Fought To Continue To Honor This American HeroSchumer: An American... Read More

Schumer’s Historic CHIPS & Science Bill Has Already Spurred The Proposed Creation Of Thousands Of Jobs In Upstate NY – With Billions In CHIPS Grants On The Horizon Now, Following His Push, Treasury Releases Guidance On New Investment Tax Credit, Vital To Upstate Semiconductor Manufacturers, To Level The Playing Field With Overseas Competitors And Accelerate Ongoing Chip Projects In Upstate NY Schumer: New ITC, Investment Tax Credit Means Jobs, Jobs, Jobs For Upstate NY Following... Read More

Xylazine, Known On The Street As ‘Tranq,” Has Been Linked To Dozens Of Overdose Deaths Across Upstate And Is Already Spreading Through Capital Region Streets – Causing Fear Among Law Enforcement & Local Addiction Service Professionals – As The Drug Is Narcan Resistant Schumer Wants Feds To Accelerate Import Crack Down And Better Track Down Dangerous Xylazine Wave Heading Towards Schenectady And Across Upstate NY – By Working With Local Law Enforcement And... Read More

Xylazine, Known On The Street As ‘Tranq,” Has Been Linked To Hundreds Of Overdose Deaths Across Upstate And Is Already Spreading Through Monroe & Wayne County Streets – Xylazine Opioids Caused 59 Fatal OD’s in Monroe and 3 in Wayne in 2022 & Is Suspected in 10 Fatal OD Cases Now Under Investigation in Wayne. Schumer Wants Feds To Accelerate Import Crack Down And Better Track Down Dangerous Xylazine Wave Heading Towards Rochester And Across Upstate NY – By... Read More

Xylazine, Known On The Street As ‘Tranq,” Has Been Linked To Dozens Of Overdose Deaths Across Upstate And Is Already Spreading Through Jefferson & St. Lawrence County Streets – Causing Fear Among Law Enforcement & Local Addiction Service Professionals – As The Drug Is Narcan Resistant Schumer Wants Feds To Accelerate Import Crack Down And Better Track Down Dangerous Xylazine Wave Heading Towards Watertown And Across Upstate NY – By Working With Local Law... Read More

Schumer Secured Fed Funding Will Allow Broome Urban League, United Way of Broome County, and Leadership Alliance To Directly Tackle Childcare Deserts In Greater Binghamton, Expanding Programs And Creating Up To 475 New Slots For Families In Need Schumer: Investing In Children & Families Of Broome County Is Investing In The Future Of The Southern Tier U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer today announced he has secured a major federal investment of $750,000 to expand access to... Read More

After Personally Calling USDOT To Help Secure $55 Million From “Reconnecting Communities” Program, Buttigieg Joins Schumer In Buffalo To See Firsthand How Buffalo Can Be A National Model For Equity Schumer: Buffalo’s Neighborhoods Were Torn Apart By The Kensington Expressway – Fed $$$ Will Help Bridge Divides And Reconnect Communities Following his successful push to secure $55 million for the redesign of Buffalo’s Kensington Expressway from the Bipartisan... Read More

President Biden’s Proposed Budget Will Improve Lives In Every Corner Of The Empire State – Making Major Investments In Programs Essential To Upstate, All While Cutting The Deficit By Nearly $3 Trillion Over 10 Years  Senator Details What Happens Next With The Budget As He Rallies To Ensure Upstate Is Not Left Out  Schumer: Budget Proposal Was Created With Upstate Families And Workers In Mind U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer today revealed how the... Read More

Deadly December Blizzard Slammed Buffalo And Upstate Communities With Historic Amounts Of Snow – Bringing Hurricane Force Winds, Impossible Road Conditions And Tragically Resulting In Nearly 50 New Yorkers Losing Their Lives Senators Fought Non-Stop To Elevate Buffalo’s Requests For Help To Highest Levels of Government, Writing - Multiple Letters- With Schumer Personally Lobbying President Biden On Air Force One, Calling The FEMA Administrator, And White House Chief Of Staff Multiple... Read More

Schumer Has Been Relentless In His Calls For EPA To Set A Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) For Highly Toxic PFOA/PFOS Chemicals; Majority Leader Also Included $10 Billion in The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for PFAS Clean-up   Senator Says EPA’s Proposed New Nat’l Drinking Water Standard Is MAJOR Step In The Right Direction To Protect NY From PFAS Pollution Schumer: This Critical Step Will Make Drinking Water Safer Across New YorkFollowing years of advocacy to clean up... Read More

Funding Will Bolster Recruitment And Restart Cortland’s Successful “Bunk In” Program To Give College Age Students Firsthand Experience To Become Firefighters Schumer Helped Create The AFG & SAFER Grant Which Delivered Today’s Funding- And Says Boosts Like This Are Why He Is Fighting To Save The Program From Being Eliminated This YearSchumer, Gillibrand: Fed $$$ Will Help Train the Next Generation of Firefighters In Cortland To Keep Community SafeU.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer... Read More

Earlier This Month, A Freight Train Going Through Rockland Collided with A Semi Stuck on CSX Tracks, Which Is No Stranger to Flammable Crude & Toxic Materials, Renewing Concerns After East Palestine Disaster & Newburgh’s 2017 CSX Derailment That Leaked 4,600+ Gallons of Diesel Fuel Near the Hudson River Schumer, In A Personal Meeting with CSX CEO, Sounded Alarm on Dangerous Rockland Rail Crossing & Secured A Major Commitment to Finally Replace By The End Of 2023 West... Read More