Chuck Schumer has been re-elected this Thursday as leader of the Democrats in the United States Senate for the next legislature, in which the party will once again have control of the upper house after better-than-expected mid-term results.
Schumer, a senator from New York, has been unanimously re-elected along with the other candidates to lead the Democrats in the upper house. In 2021 he made history after being the first Jew to lead one of the two parties in Congress.
The rest of the Democratic controls in the Senate are occupied by Patty Murray, who will be the ‘number two’ of the party in this chamber, Dick Durbin, as in charge of monitoring party discipline; and Debbie Stabenow, as chair of the Democratic committee.
Schumer’s re-election comes shortly after it was confirmed that Democrats will have a narrow margin of control in the Senate after Raphael Warnock took his Georgia seat earlier this week, gaining two more than Republicans.
This will be the first time that Schumer will have an absolute majority after in previous years, the Democrats had to resort to the casting vote of the Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris, in her capacity as president of the Senate, to break the tie at 50 seats. in which various laws fell.
In the other chamber of Congress, it will be Hakeem Jeffries who will lead the Democrats, after two decades of leadership by veteran Nancy Pelosi.
