Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was rushed to a local hospital Wednesday after suffering from dehydration during the brutal heat wave gripping the Northeast.
The 74-year-old Democrat from Brooklyn reportedly became lightheaded while riding a stationary bike in the Senate gym, a source said to the New York Post.
A spokesperson confirmed Schumer was taken in “out of an abundance of caution” and was later released. He has since returned to work at the Capitol.
“Leader Schumer was at the Senate gym this morning and got lightheaded,” his office said to Fox News. “Out of an abundance of caution, he went to the hospital to be treated for dehydration and is now back at work in the Capitol.”
Schumer even showed up at a press conference in the afternoon focused on airline safety, standing alongside families of the 2009 Colgan Air crash victims.
The heat has been relentless across the Northeast megalopolis this week.
Temperatures have soared into the high-90s in both Washington, D.C., and New York City.
Fox Weather confirmed Tuesday was NYC’s hottest day since 2012.
This isn’t the first time Schumer’s had a health scare.
He was diagnosed with pneumonia in 2016 and tested positive for COVID-19 in 2022, with only minor symptoms reported at the time
This month, Schumer attempted to rebrand the Republican-led “One Big Beautiful Bill”, drawing swift backlash.
Schumer accused President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans of misleading the public about the bill’s true impact, suggesting it should instead be called the “Well, We’re All Going To Die Act.”
He argued that the legislation would remove health care coverage from 14 million Americans, cut off food assistance for 11 million people, and finance “tax cuts for billionaires on the backs of families.”
“Here’s the ‘We Are All Going To Die Act,’” Schumer read from his visual aid.
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Critics were quick to respond, noting that if every Republican-led measure labeled “deadly” by Democrats actually resulted in deaths, most Americans would have perished multiple times by now.
“I’m already dead from Net Neutrality, climate change, sequestration, and building a wall,” one respondent on the X platform said.
“I was murdered by the repeal of Net Neutrality,” another noted.
“Doesn’t this act get old? Everyone was going to die if we repealed net neutrality. Passing a Georgia law that expanded voter access was going to bring back segregation. Passing tax cuts will kill everyone. Even the emotional value is gone because no one takes it seriously,” AG Hamilton posted.
“It really is like the Reason video when they mocked these clowns for saying ‘people will die’ anytime a Republican proposed anything,” another said while sharing the video.
“No one should ever – ever – take these people seriously ever again ever,” CNN GOP pundit Scott Jennings concluded.
Meanwhile, a stunning new poll from CNN shows the Democratic Party lagging far behind the Republicans when it comes to economic issues.
After months of the Democrats and their media allies trying to scare Americans about President Donald Trump’s tariff plans, CNN data analyst Harry Enten was surprised at how badly the left-wing narrative was failing.
“You would think after all of the waves, Kate Bolduan, after the last few months, the first five months of the Donald Trump presidency, right, the first four months of the Donald Trump presidency, that you’d expect that Democrats would have this massive lead on the economy. It ain’t so. It ain’t so,” he told the host during a segment.