What were the roll call vote numbers and final tallies for the FY2025 CRs in the House?

1. A razor-thin victory that decided funding for FY2025 at the 11th hour

The House recorded Roll Call 70 on March 11, 2025, approving H.R.1968, the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025, by 217-213 with 0 present and 2 not voting; the official tally shows a near-perfect party split in which 216 House Republicans and one House Democrat voted yea, while 212 House Democrats and one Republican voted nay ^[1]. This narrow margin underscores how the CR cleared the immediate threat of a shutdown and sent the measure to the Senate, where it faced its own set of negotiations but ultimately passed in a 54-46 vote and was signed into law on March 15, 2025 ^[2]. The roll call record and the party-line breakdown are central to understanding legislative leverage and the balance of power in the 119th Congress during that funding cycle ^[1].

2. Why lawmakers framed the vote so differently across the aisle

Republican leadership presented H.R.1968 as a pragmatic, clean vehicle to keep government operations running at FY2024 levels and avoid the disruptions of a lapse in appropriation; their messaging emphasized continuity and preventing a shutdown ^[3]. Democratic opponents framed the same CR as insufficient and problematic, criticizing specific provisions — most notably a $20 billion rescission in IRS funding and other adjustments they argued would undercut enforcement or programmatic priorities. Both narratives are reflected directly in the final vote breakdown, with Republicans coalescing to support the CR and Democrats mostly opposing it on policy grounds and messaging about long-term impacts ^{[3] [2]}.

3. The procedural path: from Rules Committee to final passage

Before the floor vote, the CR was reported out of the House Rules Committee on a 9-3 vote, a procedural step that shaped debate time and amendment availability for H.R.1968 ^[3]. That Rules Committee disposition helped secure the disciplined, near-whole Republican caucus support that produced the 217-213 margin, because the rule limited amendments and positioned the bill as a straightforward funding vehicle rather than a locus for extended policy fights. The recorded roll call (Roll No. 70) preserves the individual member positions and is the primary document for the exact tallies and party-line analysis used by journalists and researchers assessing the vote ^[1].

4. Broader context: Senate approval and enactment into law

After the House passage, the Senate considered the measure and approved it by a recorded Yea-Nay vote of 54-46, completing congressional action and enabling the President to sign the measure into law as Public Law No: 119-4 on March 15, 2025 ^[2]. That bicameral approval converted the House roll call outcome into enforceable appropriations for FY2025, ending the immediate shutdown risk. The Senate tally shows that the House margin, while narrow, was sufficient to carry the overall process through a divided Congress and onto enactment in mid-March 2025 ^[2].

5. Conflicting summaries and later references that can confuse the record

Some subsequent commentaries and advisories cite different CR proposals and later short-term measures from September 2025, such as H.R.5371, which are separate from the FY2025 full-year CR enacted in March; those later votes have different tallies (e.g., 217-212 reported for a September measure) and can create confusion when readers conflate distinct CRs from the same year ^{[4] [5]}. Careful attention to bill numbers and roll call IDs — H.R.1968 and Roll Call 70 for the March FY2025 CR — is essential to avoid mixing separate procedural episodes, and the archived roll call provides the authoritative breakdown for the March action ^[1].

6. What the detailed roll call reveals about legislative dynamics

The individual-member roll call for Roll No. 70 shows nearly unanimous caucus behavior with only two cross-party dissents (one Republican in opposition and one Democrat in support), which highlights both caucus discipline and the political stakes attached to spending votes in a narrowly divided chamber. Analysts use that granular data to map bipartisan outliers, analyze regional or ideological splits, and assess the influence of party messaging and leadership pressure; the March 11 record continues to be cited in retrospectives on FY2025 budgeting and shutdown-avoidance debates ^{[1] [3]}.