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Chuck Schumer: “We got it done. And there are billions, tens of billions of…”

Featuring: Chuck Schumer, Democratic | U.S. Senate New York

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NABTU Legislative Conference 2026 - Sen. Schumer Remarks

Published | Video Starts at 10:16

I said no. And we fought. Even the House, which was Democratic, said 80%. I said, NFW, the. Those are Brooklyn words. 100% is what we're going to do. And we got it. We got it done. And there are billions, tens of billions of dollars in the hands of your membership because we won on pension reform by fighting together. And so many of the building trades benefited. When I was majority leader, we passed a record amount of infrastructure and building legislation. (10:16–10:28)

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Asserts that pension reform resulted in billions of dollars for union members.

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