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Latest Fact-Checks On Charles Schumer

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Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on April 27, 2025 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union"
“It's estimated” that President Donald Trump’s tariffs will mean “American families would have to pay about $4,000 more a year.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • May 5, 2025
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on January 29, 2024 a press release
“TSA found with metal detectors nearly 7,000 firearms at airports last year — an all-time high.”
Mostly True
By David Scibilia • February 21, 2024
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on March 28, 2023 a Senate floor speech
Sen. Tommy Tuberville is preventing military promotions “because he objects to women within the military getting access to reproductive care.”
Half-True
By Mary McNaughton • May 4, 2023
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on March 10, 2023 a news release
Sullivan County “has the highest opioid death rate in all of New York state” yet “it’s the only county in the Hudson Valley not included in the federal High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area” program.
Mostly True
By Conor Amendola • April 4, 2023
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on May 25, 2022 a floor speech
“The leading cause of death among children is a firearm.”
Mostly True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • June 4, 2022
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on September 3, 2021 an interview with WSYR-TV
“All” Americans in Afghanistan who “have wanted to come out have come out.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2021
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on March 24, 2021 a Senate hearing
“Republicans recently passed a bill to eliminate early voting on Sunday” in Georgia
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • March 26, 2021
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on September 18, 2020 a tweet
On confirming a Supreme Court nominee in a presidential election year.
Full Flop
By Miriam Valverde • September 22, 2020
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on July 28, 2020 an MSNBC interview
“You know what’s in this bill? No medical malpractice suits until 2024, even if they’re not COVID related.”
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • August 3, 2020
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on January 24, 2020 a news conference
"The American people are overwhelmingly with us" in calling witnesses in Senate trial 
True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 28, 2020
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on July 10, 2018 an interview on MSNBC
Says Brett Kavanaugh "has said the president shouldn't be investigated."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • July 10, 2018
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on April 16, 2018 a news release from Senate Democrats
In the wake of the Republican-backed tax bill, "more than 100,000 American workers have already been laid off in 2018."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 18, 2018
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on October 1, 2017 an interview on CBS' Face the Nation
Trump’s tax plan is "completely focused on the wealthy and the powerful - not the middle class."
False
By Dan Clark • October 9, 2017
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on October 4, 2017 a Senate floor speech
"The Republicans are proposing to pay for their giant tax cut to the rich by gutting Medicare and Medicaid."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 6, 2017
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on July 23, 2017 an interview on ABC's "This Week"
"When the price for oil goes up on the markets, it goes right up, but it never goes down."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 25, 2017
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on May 18, 2017 a Senate floor speech
"President Obama became the first president since Carter to leave the White House with a smaller federal prison population than when he took office."
True
By Louis Jacobson • May 18, 2017
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on March 1, 2017 a Senate floor speech
"In fact, if you add up the net wealth of his cabinet, it has more wealth than a third of the American people total -- close to 100 million people."  
Mostly True
March 27, 2017
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on January 27, 2017 a tweet
Says Rex "Tillerson won't divest from Exxon."
Pants on Fire!
By Lauren Carroll • January 27, 2017
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on January 3, 2017 an interview on MSNBC
Says Donald Trump campaigned on not cutting Medicare and Social Security, but his nominee for the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Price, "made his career on cutting Medicare and Medicaid."
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • January 10, 2017
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on June 14, 2016 a news conference
Last year, "244 suspected terrorists walked into gun shops and attempted to purchase a firearm; 223 were able to get the firearm."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 15, 2016
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