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EXPOSED: Chuck Schumer BLOCKED Strategic Reserve Fill at $29 - Now DEMANDS Trump Drain It

Gary FranchiMarch 9, 2026122 views
EXPOSED: Chuck Schumer BLOCKED Strategic Reserve Fill at $29 - Now DEMANDS Trump Drain It
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is proving once again that Democrats have absolutely zero principles when it comes to governing - just raw, naked partisanship that puts politics above America's national security interests.

The fossilized New York Senator is now demanding that President Trump tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to lower gas prices, conveniently forgetting that he and his fellow Democrats blocked efforts to refill those same reserves when oil was trading at just $29 per barrel during the Trump administration.

That's right, Patriots - when President Trump had the foresight to want to fill up America's emergency oil reserves at rock-bottom prices, Schumer and the Democrat obstructionists said "no." But now that they're out of power and looking for any excuse to attack Trump's America First energy policies, suddenly they're concerned about gas prices?

The Weasel's Latest Flip-Flop

This is the same Chuck Schumer who spent four years undermining every single Trump policy, including common-sense energy independence measures that would have saved American families thousands at the pump. Now he has the audacity to demand Trump use the SPR - the same reserve Democrats prevented from being filled when it would have cost taxpayers a fraction of today's prices.

"Schumer has all the personal convictions and intellectual consistency of a weasel," as one conservative analyst perfectly described the Senate Democrat leader's latest hypocritical stance.

The truth is simple: Democrats don't care about your energy costs or America's energy security. They care about scoring cheap political points and obstructing the Trump agenda at every turn, even when it hurts working families.

While Trump is focused on unleashing American energy dominance through his "Drill, baby, drill" agenda, Schumer wants to drain our emergency reserves - the same reserves he helped keep empty when filling them would have been smart and cheap.

This is exactly why Americans rejected the failed Democrat agenda in 2024. Patriots see right through this transparent hypocrisy. When will Chuck Schumer finally retire and stop embarrassing New York?

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Gary Franchi

Award-winning journalist covering breaking news, politics & culture for Next News Network.

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PatriotFirst2024Verifiedjust now
Classic Schumer - plays politics with our national security when it suits him. He blocked filling the reserve when oil was cheap just to hurt Trump, and now wants to drain it when we actually need those reserves. This is exactly why we can't trust career politicians with our strategic interests.
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TexasConservativeVerifiedjust now
Couldn't agree more! These establishment politicians care more about scoring political points than actually protecting America's energy independence.
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EnergyWorker47Verifiedjust now
I work in the oil industry and remember when prices crashed to $29 - that would have been the PERFECT time to fill our strategic reserves. Instead of thinking long-term about America's energy security, Schumer was too busy trying to oppose anything Trump wanted to do.