US Chuck Schumer hospitalized, as DC heat wave rages - Chuckles said to aids it felt like over 6,000,000

Savannah Kuchar
USA TODAY
June 25, 2025 3:29 p.m. ET
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WASHINGTON − Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, was hospitalized June 25, after feeling lightheaded in the gym, according to his office.

"Out of an abundance of caution, he went to the hospital to be treated for dehydration and is now back at work in the Capitol," Schumer's press secretary, Allison Biasotti, said in a statement.

Washington has been broiling this week, with the Mid-Atlantic region under a start-of-summer heat wave.

Temperatures in the capital city have reached above 100 degrees in recent days and hit a high of feels like 109 degrees the day Schumer went to the hospital, according to the National Weather Service.


U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) walks toward a press conference following a weekly policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 24, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Mohatt Kevin Mohatt, REUTERS

Schumer "wants to remind everyone to drink some water and stay out of the heat," his spokesperson said.

 

[#FF0000]

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, was hospitalized June 25

and is now back at work in the Capitol

 

[World Famous Quasi Payer]

Glad he's back at it, now he can watch Trump pass his big beautiful bill that'll fuck over the dems ever getting back into power for the next decade!

 

[John Badman]

Glad he's back at it, now he can watch Trump pass his big beautiful bill that'll fuck over the dems ever getting back into power for the next decade!

That still hasn’t been passed? It’s been a full month and we went to war with Iran already. Talk about ineffectual.

 

[TowinKarz]

Does the Capitol not have A/C ?

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Does the Capitol not have A/C ?

It wasn't the weather, he died for half a second and got a preview of what's waiting for him.

 

[Yamaha YM2612]

That still hasn’t been passed? It’s been a full month and we went to war with Iran already. Talk about ineffectual.

Trump prevented war with Iran.

 

[Made In Wales]

Lightheaded in the gym?

TFW you have more muscle than your porky offspring who wears an inner-tube for simps to fap off to.

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

Unless this gym is some kind of Ivan Drago dungeon I find it hard to believe the heat wave had anything to do with it.

 

[I Hate The Disabled]

Unless this gym is some kind of Ivan Drago dungeon I find it hard to believe the heat wave had anything to do with it.

True, but old people's bodies can go into shock from going from really hot to cold too quickly. So really, it was the AC that sent him to the hospital, not the heatwave.

 

[A Very Big Fish]

Unless this gym is some kind of Ivan Drago dungeon I find it hard to believe the heat wave had anything to do with it.

"Hey boss, there's some old guy on the bench press, he's not looking so good. Should we do something?"

-"If he dies, he dies"

 

[Catch The Rainbow]

Very bad heat tolerance for a Palestinian

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

True, but old people's bodies can go into shock from going from really hot to cold too quickly. So really, it was the AC that sent him to the hospital, not the heatwave.

I'd agree if he actually walked and wasn't driven there in an air-conditioned car.

 

[deleuzeon]

Schumer "wants to remind everyone to drink some water and stay out of the heat,"

Good advice. Many Americans have no job or health care. They can't run to a hospital when they feel lightheaded. They really do have to practice prevention.

 

[American Fatso]

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the oven.

 

[John Badman]

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the oven.

OY! HOW ANTISEMITIC OF YOU.

 

[Urban Paradise]

Nah, this is a cover-up. Chuck tried to kill himself because Mamdani won lol!

 

[The Dude]

Damn it. Got my hopes up. That traitorous hook-nose needs to get poked in the dick by pitchfork-armed demons while Stalin shoves pineapples up his ass.

 

[KiwiFuzz2]

I don't count "visiting the ER" as "hospitalized."

Unless they kept him overnight and woke him up at 3 am to shove a thermometer in his ass, he was treated and discharged.

 

[More AWS-8Q Than You]

Temperatures in the capital city have reached above 100 degrees in recent days and hit a high of feels like 109 degrees

Wow, it's normal Virginia summer weather, just a little early. Next they'll say it was a bit humid too.