By Citizens Against Government Waste
(Washington, D.C.) – Today, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) named Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) its October 2025 Porker of the Month for terrorizing taxpayers with massive wasteful spending just before Halloween.
On October 1, 2025, “Chucky” Schumer caused the government shutdown by trying to conjure $1.5 trillion in hocus-pocus spending programs. He previously voted to keep the government open 13 times, but this time he wanted to slam it closed. Eight days into the shutdown, “Chucky” Schumer smacked Americans across the face by saying, “every day gets better for us.” Not only is he taunting taxpayers by claiming all is well for him and fellow Democrats, but he is also making the government even scarier by trying to raise dead programs from the wasteful spending graveyard. Sen. Schumer wants to make temporary insurance premium subsidies for families making up to $500,000 last forever. That would cost a shocking $410 billion over 10 years, more than the Departments of Interior and Commerce combined.
CAGW President Tom Schatz said, “‘Chucky’ Schumer should be ashamed of his ghastly antics. He not only caused the government shutdown, but also remains the reason that it is still shutdown. ‘Chucky’ is playing a nasty trick on Americans by saying all is well and getting better by the day. He should stop ghosting taxpayers, agree to open the government, and then sit down to discuss why he thinks super insurance premium subsidies for wealthy taxpayers should continue and profligate spending that was eliminated should be revived. For shutting the government down and trying to increase the gruesome national debt with $1.5 trillion in wasteful spending, Sen. “Chucky” Schumer was an easy choice for October 2025 Porker of the Month.”
Citizens Against Government Waste is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government. For more than two decades, Porker of the Month is a dubious honor given to lawmakers and government officials who have shown a blatant disregard for the taxpayers.