“This is an excellent program. Nobody has said it has done a bad job. It is small. There are only about 50,000 visas a year. ... As I ride my bike around New York City on the weekends, I see what immigrants do for America. This program has dramatically helped.”
“People who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens, and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who entered the U.S. legally.”
“Assault weapons were designed for and should be used on our battlefields, not on our streets. There is no inalienable right to own and operate 100-round clips on AR-15 assault rifles.”
“President Trump turned away from not one but two bipartisan compromises. Each would have averted this shutdown....It is something the majority could have avoided entirely, a concern the president could have obivated, if he were only willing to take yes for an answer.”
“It has to be the legislation itself, it has to be big bold and strong. If Republicans work with us to get good strong legislation then yes... but look at 2008 where we spent a year and a half trying to get something good done, ACA (Obamacare), and we didn't do all the other things that needed to be done. We will not repeat the same mistake.”
“What is needed now is a long-term solution so we don’t go through this drama every few months.”
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Charles Ellis Schumer é um político americano servindo desde 1999 como senador dos Estados Unidos por Nova York. Membro do Partido Democrata, ele lidera o Caucus Democrata do Senado desde 2017 e serviu como líder da maioria no Senado de 2021 a 2025. Ele serviu dois mandatos como líder da minoria no Senado, de 2017 a 2021 e desde 2025. Ele se tornou o senador sênior de Nova York em 2001, com a aposentadoria de Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Eleito para um quinto mandato em 2022, Schumer superou Moynihan e Jacob K. Javits como o senador dos EUA mais longevo de Nova York. Ele é o decano da delegação congressional de Nova York.
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