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Charles Schumer

Charles Schumer

Charles Schumer is a Democratic senator from New York and the Senate majority leader.

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Latest Fact-Checks By Charles Schumer

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Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on March 17, 2026 in remarks to reporters:
The SAVE America Act “would force Americans to register (to vote) only in person, something only 5% of Americans do today."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 19, 2026
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on April 27, 2025 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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
By Jana Heigl • March 27, 2017
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on January 27, 2017 in 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 in 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
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Latest Fact-Checks About Charles Schumer

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stated on March 17, 2024 in a Facebook post:
Image shows “chaos unfolds on Senate floor — Chuck Schumer rushes out.”
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By Ciara O'Rourke • March 21, 2024
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stated on October 24, 2023 in an Instagram post:
U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer “is a dual Israeli citizen.”
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • October 27, 2023
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stated on November 25, 2022 in a Facebook post:
A video shows lawmakers in compromising positions with children.
Pants on Fire!
By Ciara O'Rourke • December 16, 2022
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on March 1, 2021 in an interview with CBS News:
The $1.9 trillion relief package is “about a bridge for Chuck Schumer, a tunnel for Nancy Pelosi.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • March 2, 2021
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stated on July 17, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Photo shows “Chuck Schumer kissing this child on Epstein island!”
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • July 18, 2020
X posts
X posts
stated on February 29, 2020 in posts on Twitter and Facebook:
Says Sen. Chuck Schumer deleted a Feb. 5 tweet criticizing President Donald Trump’s decision to ban some forms of travel to and from China.
Pants on Fire!
By Aaron Sharockman • February 29, 2020
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stated on November 9, 2019 in a Facebook post:
Says photos show the Trump-Ukraine whistleblower with Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren, Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton.
Pants on Fire!
By Ciara O'Rourke • November 14, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 10, 2018 in a tweet:
"Senator Cryin’ Chuck Schumer fought hard against the Bad Iran Deal, even going at it with President Obama, & then Voted AGAINST it! Now he says I should not have terminated the deal"
True
By Dan Clark • May 24, 2018
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on April 20, 2018 in a tweet:
"Black and Latino people in NYC are arrested at TEN times the rate of white people for virtually the same rate of marijuana usage."
True
By Dan Clark • April 25, 2018
Claudia Tenney
Claudia Tenney
stated on December 3, 2017 in a local news interview:
On the Republican tax plan: "Unfortunately, the wealthy are, again, not going to do well in this bill"
Mostly False
By Dan Clark • December 21, 2017
USA In Front
USA In Front
stated on December 10, 2017 in a headline:
"Update: Chuck Schumer’s steamy affair with a high school cheerleader confirmed."
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • December 18, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on November 1, 2017 in a tweet:
Says the diversity visa lottery program is "a Chuck Schumer beauty."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson, Miriam Valverde • November 1, 2017
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on March 1, 2017 in 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
By Jana Heigl • March 27, 2017
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