Schumer Builds Bridge to Trump

Published December 21, 2016 10:00pm ET



Perhaps unsurprisingly, incoming Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer is among the Democrats willing to work with President-elect Trump to pass some of his more “populist” ideas into law. But the tough liberal campaigner issued a blanket statement about cooperating with the new administration.

“We’re not going to oppose something simply because it has the name Trump on it, but we will certainly not sacrifice our principles just to get something done,” he said on ABC News’s Powerhouse Politics podcast, in a discussion of such issues as infrastructure and trade.

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