Chuck Schumer hospitalized for dehydration after feeling lightheaded during scorching heat wave

WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was taken to a local hospital Wednesday morning for dehydration treatment as the Northeast battles a scorching heat wave.

The Brooklyn Democrat, 74, became lightheaded while working out and was briefly hospitalized “out of an abundance of caution,” a spokesperson told The Post.

Sen. Chuck Schumer was hospitalized with dehydration. AP

Schumer, who was first elected to the Senate in 1998, has since been released and is back to work in the Capitol, the rep added.