As Senate majority leader, Schumer has firmly cast his lot with an emerging liberal supermajority in his caucus that is increasingly comfortable with a more muscular federal government — and the higher taxes and spending needed to underpin it.

As Senate majority leader, Schumer has firmly cast his lot with an emerging liberal supermajority in his caucus that is increasingly comfortable with a more muscular federal government — and the higher taxes and spending needed to underpin it.