Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has been asking for a briefing on election interference for several weeks. | Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images congress Schumer: Senate briefing coming soon on election interference

All 100 senators will soon receive a briefing on election interference from intelligence and law enforcement officials, according to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

The New York Democrat said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has "assured" him that there will be a bipartisan briefing on the subject in the coming days. Schumer has been asking for a briefing for several weeks, while also stumping for passage of bipartisan election security legislation written in response to Russia's 2016 interference to boost President Donald Trump.


"At the very least, the Senate should be briefed by our intelligence and law enforcement chiefs about the threat of election interference in the 2020 election so we can all be aware of the danger," Schumer said in a floor speech, adding that he hoped the briefings will "take place as soon as possible during this work period so we can prepare new legislation that will go into effect at least a year before Election Day of 2020."

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McConnell has resisted efforts to pass an election security bill and the bipartisan effort has stalled in the Senate Rules Committee, where Chairman Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) has declined to move it forward given McConnell's opposition. Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) has blamed both McConnell and former White House counsel Don McGahn for halting the legislation last year.

Schumer said Monday that the bill is "another tombstone in [McConnell's] legislative graveyard."

"We have bipartisan legislation to harden election infrastructure and sanction any foreign power that tries to interfere in our elections. That legislation is ready to go, but once again, Mitch McConnell, the self-described grim reaper, has refused to take it up."

In his separate floor remarks, McConnell did not address Schumer's speech.