Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Tuesday dismissed calls from the nation’s largest federal workers’ union for Democrats to end the shutdown by voting for a “clean” continuing resolution. “We can do both, and we need to do both — both have federal workers get paid in every way and negotiate a way to resolve the Americans’ pain in the health care crisis,” he told reporters when asked whether the American Federation of Government Employees’ (AFGE) stance would change his party’s posit

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Senate Democrats will introduce a bill Tuesday, on day 28 of the government shutdown, to fund SNAP, after the Department of Agriculture said federal food aid will not go out on Nov. 1. When asked by CBS News’ Nikole Killion at his weekly press conference what the Democratic strategy is to end the shutdown, Schumer responded: “Look on November 1, people in more than 30 states are going to be aghast, aghast, when they see their bills. And they're going to