Diyar Guldogan
16 January 2026•Update: 16 January 2026
WASHINGTON
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer met President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday to discuss a range of issues, including immigration enforcement, infrastructure funding and health care.
Schumer raised concerns about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations, telling the president that recent raids are “terrorizing communities,” according to a statement from his office.
"Leader Schumer also told President Trump that their actions are dangerous and putting more people at risk and he must pull back ICE from U.S. cities," it added.
The meeting came after an American woman and mother, Renee Nicole Macklin Good, 37, was fatally shot last week in the state of Minnesota by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, sparking widespread public and political backlash, and demands for investigations at the local, state and federal levels.
The meeting that was requested by Trump, focused on the president’s hold on the $16 billion Gateway tunnel project between New York and New Jersey.
Schumer "emphasized the urgent need to promptly release the already-secured funds for the Gateway Program - the most important infrastructure project in the nation employing thousands of workers and vital to New York and the entire Northeast economy," it said.
In addition, Schumer pressed the president to encourage Senate Republicans to support a three-year extension of Affordable Care Act tax credits, legislation that has already passed in the House of Representatives.
