Chuck Schumer

• Second Reading: Shutdown politics and public opinion in Texas

  October 02, 2025 | By: Texas Politics Project
  James Henson and Joshua Blank dig into what UT/Texas Politics Project polling can tell us about the public opinion context for the government shutdown in Texas.

• Chuck Schumer Approval (April 2025)

  Respondents were asked, "How would you rate the job Chuck Schumer is doing as Senate Minority Leader? Would you say that you..."

• Chuck Schumer Approval (October 2023)

  Respondents were asked, "How would you rate the job Chuck Schumer is doing as Senate Majority Leader? Would you say that you..."

• Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Program: Texas Public Opinion and the Politics of the Border Security–Government Shutdown Imbroglio

  December 11, 2018 | By: Jim Henson, Joshua Blank

  If politics in the state capital seem to have taken an oddly agreeable turn in the interim between the November elections and the commencement of the 86th Texas Legislative Session in January 2019, the resurgence of the politics of border security in negotiations between the White House and Congressional Democrats over a continuing resolution to fund the federal government remind us that the nativist sentiment among the Republican base is never far from the surface. Whether they reappear in state politics too, after an interlude of good feelings about the need to address public school financing and forego more divisive policy issues, will depend on the choices of the major players in the legislative process – and, to a difficult to predict degree, upon national atmospherics shaped largely by the White House. 

  For today, though, the intense views on border security and immigration that have been the most reliable features of GOP attitudes both nationally and in Texas are at center stage as Donald Trump plays chicken with the Democratic congressional leadership over his demands for $5 billion in funding for his border wall (presumably the share the Mexican government has not yet paid for).