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.”

For more than three decades, Schumer shared an aging row house in Washington with Congressional colleagues, including Dick Durbin and George Miller. He lived in the row house during the week and returned to his family home in Brooklyn on weekends. Writer/actress Amy Schumer is his second cousin, once removed.

Sen. Chuck Schumer arrived in Rochester Monday, promising to get all hands on deck to contain the virus and lower prices for families and restaurants. "I'm ready to work in a bipartisan way with ...

President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday announced it rescinded a memo his team sent out regarding the federal grant freeze.

Donald Trump’s move to pause trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans awakened widespread Democratic resistance to the new president’s second term that was felt Tuesday on Capitol Hill, in governors’ offices and in the race to helm the party’s national committee.

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.

Schumer said said he received nonstop calls with concerns that this could shut down critical operations and cancel construction projects.

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.

The Trump’s administration’s Office of Management and Budget released a memo Wednesday rescinding a controversial order that froze a wide swath of federal financial assistance, which had paralyzed many federal programs and caused a huge uproar on Capitol Hill.

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has fired about 17 independent inspectors general at government agencies, a sweeping action to remove oversight of his new administration that some members of Congress are suggesting violated federal oversight laws.

Many on X noted that Schumer had previously accused Trump, 78, of having “incited the erection” at the US Capitol.