Chuck Schumer's $79 Million Week

The first press release they put out that day said that Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) had "secured $3,822,000 for critical local projects."

"This nearly $4 million in federal funding makes vital investments in the Capital Region's top-notch educational institutions, helping give students the equipment and hands-on training they need," Schumer said.

The second press release they put out that day said Schumer and Gillibrand "secured $3,000,000 for the Syracuse University and CenterState CEO in the Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations bills to upgrade facilities at the Syracuse University's South Side Innovation Center and prepare local small business to succeed in the semiconductor industry through CenterState CEO."

The third press release they put out that day said Schumer and Gillibrand "personally secured $1,000,000 for Binghamton University to purchase state-of-the-art advanced packaging equipment for its Nanofabrication Laboratory (NLAB) in Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations bills as a Congressionally Directed Spending request to bolster workforce training for advanced chip manufacturing in cleanroom environments."

A fourth press release they put out that day said Schumer and Gillibrand "secured $1,200,000 in the Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations package for DAY ONE Early Learning Community, a preschool in Poughkeepsie that serves low-income children and families."

A fifth press release published that same day said Schumer and Gillibrand "announced $5,633,581 through the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Great Lakes Environmental Justice Grant Program to develop and implement the Western New York Environmental Justice Grant Program for underserved communities in Lake Erie and Niagara River's watershed."

Two days later, on April 4, Schumer "announced $1,559,000 from Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations bills to support vital semiconductor and healthcare workforce training programs and higher education infrastructure upgrades in Rochester."

Four days after that, on April 8, Schumer declared that he was "proud to deliver a whopping $39 million to help rehabilitate the South Grand Island Bridges and bolster resilient infrastructure needed to maintain these vital corridors for Western NY."

That same day, he also announced that a "whopping nearly $24 million from our Bipartisan Infrastructure & Jobs Law to bolster flooding mitigation on Cortlandt's Route 6 will drive our communities towards a safer and more resilient future."

Who is going to pay for these projects in Schumer's home state?

Federal taxpayers in New York, of course, will carry some of the burden -- but so, too, will taxpaying workers in Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Kansas, Oklahoma, Idaho, Alaska and every other state in the union.

Because the federal government is continuing to run a massive deficit -- it was $828.135 billion through the first five months of this fiscal year -- not only will current taxpayers fund such projects but so, too, will future generations who will be required to pay the interest on the money the federal government borrows to fund them.

Terence P. Jeffrey is the investigative editor of the Daily Caller News Foundation. To find out more about Terence P. Jeffrey and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

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