Trump and Schumer's battles, from the government shutdown to immigration reform

President Trump and Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer knew each other long before the former got into politics.

Both men are from New York, and their families were involved in real estate and construction. Now, they’re both at the center of national politics.

From immigration reform to a government shutdown, here’s a look at Schumer and Trump’s disagreements over the years.

Schumer's slams Trump's judicial pick

Sen. Chuck Schumer rejected the Trump administration's nomination of Marvin Quattlebaum because he's white. Schumer argued the nomination "speaks to the overall lack of diversity in President Trump's selections for the federal judiciary." (Handout)

Schumer knocked Trump's judicial nomination of Marvin Quattlebaum, a white lawyer who's a partner at the firm Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough in Greenville, South Carolina, for not being diverse enough.

"[The nomination] speaks to the overall lack of diversity in President Trump’s selections for the federal judiciary," Schumer told congressional colleagues on the Senate floor on Feb. 28, adding it's "a giant step backwards” in terms of diversity.

He complained that many of Trump’s nominees have been white males, and pointed out Republicans previously held up two black judges nominated under the Obama administration for the position.

“It is long past time that the judiciary starts looking a lot more like the America it represents,” Schumer said. “Having a diversity of views and experience on the federal bench is necessary for the equal administration of justice.”

Republican lawmakers slammed Schumer for what they described as "shameful" comments.

“It is long past time that the judiciary starts looking a lot more like the America it represents."
— Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

“This was an absolutely shameful reason to vote against a very qualified nominee like Marvin Quattlebaum,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., tweeted. “Voting against a highly qualified nominee because of the color of his skin does nothing to bring our country and nation together.”

“Perhaps Senate Democrats should be more worried about the lack of diversity on their own staffs than attacking an extremely well-qualified judicial nominee from the great state of South Carolina," Sen. Tim Scott, also a Republican serving South Carolina and the GOP’s sole black senator, added.

Quattlebaum was confirmed to the district judgeship on March 1 with a 69-29 vote.

Immigration and government

President Trump and Sen. Chuck Schumer blamed each other for the three-day government shutdown in 2018. (Reuters/Joshua Roberts)

Schumer blamed Trump, and vice-versa, but still, the federal government shut down for three days after lawmakers failed to come together on a spending package in 2018.

The Trump administration dubbed the shuttering of the government the “Schumer Shutdown.”

Because the spending package didn’t include a deal for so-called Dreamers -- the nearly 800,000 undocumented people who were brought into the country as children -- Schumer kept his party unified in a government funding fight. But by day three, Schumer buckled and agreed to an end to the shutdown in exchange for a Republican pledge to address immigration reform soon.

Since the shutdown ended, Schumer and Trump have seemingly reached an impasse on immigration reform. A Schumer spokesman said he withdrew funding for Trump's border wall from negotiations; Trump said without a wall, "there is no DACA."