Chuck Schumer has been in elected federal office since January 3, 1981—first in the House for 18 years, then in the Senate ever since. That’s over 45 years of power in Washington.
Two terms and eight years are considered plenty for a president, thanks to term limits. But for Congress? They can serve indefinitely, piling up decades in office while drifting further from reality.
This week, Schumer delivered a jaw-dropping line while ranting against the SAVE Act, a bill aimed at requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration and cracking down on non-citizen voting. In a press conference, he claimed the legislation “allows ICE to kick tens of billions of people off the rolls, off the rolls.” He went on to say they wouldn’t even know until Election Day, when voters show up and are told, “You’re not registered anymore.”
Chuck Schumer said:
Yes, but their bill isn’t voter ID, number one. It is about voter registration. It makes it, it allows ICE to kick tens of billions of people off the rolls, off the rolls. And they don’t tell them until election day. And you show them, you say you’re not registered anymore, you’re not registered here, you’re not on the rolls.
Barely anyone in the mainstream media is touching this story. The outlets that did report it? Breitbart, AOL, and Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), who highlighted the absurdity on X. Why the silence from the big networks and papers? Because it proves a top Democrat—someone who’s been in power for nearly half a century—doesn’t know the population of the United States (around 340 million people), is so out of touch that he thinks “tens of billions” is a reasonable number for American voters, or is lying because he thinks his supporters are stupid.
AOL called Schumer’s “billions” a massive gaffe. But I disagree. This wasn’t a slip of the tongue. If I ever accidentally said “tens of billions” when talking about people in the USA, I’d correct it immediately—because anyone with a basic grasp of geography and demographics knows the entire planet has about 8 billion people, and the U.S. has a fraction of that. Yet Schumer said it without flinching. He literally doesn’t know the difference between tens of billions and tens of millions.
And why would he? He’s spent the last 45 years in Congress throwing around tens of trillions of dollars in taxpayer money—ballooning debt, endless spending bills, and pork-barrel projects. When you’re used to numbers that massive, “tens of billions” of voters just sounds like another Tuesday in D.C.
This was no innocent mistake. It’s a window into how detached and likely demented the man has become after decades in the swamp. An out-of-touch career politician who’s forgotten what country he’s supposed to represent—and how many actual citizens live in it.
The SAVE Act is about basic election integrity: making sure only American citizens vote in American elections. But to Schumer, protecting that means destroying democracy and kicking tens of billions of people off the voter rolls. If that is the best argument Democrats have, no wonder they are scared of the bill passing.
America deserves better than lifelong politicians who can’t tell the difference between millions and billions. Time to term-limit Congress and bring some sanity back to Washington.
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