How many democrats voted against the troop pay bill in 2024?
Executive summary
The available reporting provided does not contain any documentation of a vote in 2024 on a “troop pay bill,” so it is not possible from these sources to state how many Democrats voted against such a bill in 2024 (the record for that year is not included in the material supplied) [1] [2]. What the supplied reporting does document is a high-profile October 2025 Senate fight over the Republican-sponsored Shutdown Fairness Act and related defense funding measures in which the vast majority of Senate Democrats opposed the Republican proposals, with only a small number of Democrats crossing party lines to vote in favor [2] [1] [3].
1. The user’s question and the primary limitation of the record
The question asks for a count tied to the year 2024, but the documents provided center on votes and messaging from October 2025 about the Shutdown Fairness Act and defense appropriations, so the archive at hand does not contain any 2024 roll‑call on a “troop pay bill” and therefore cannot supply a 2024 tally [1] [2].
2. What the sources do document: the October 2025 Senate votes
Multiple outlets in the supplied dossier report that in mid‑ to late October 2025 the Senate failed to advance Republican bills intended to guarantee pay for active‑duty service members during a government shutdown, with one key procedural vote failing 54–45 and coverage noting that most Senate Democrats voted against the Republican measure [4] [2] [1].
3. How many Democrats crossed the aisle in that episode
Newsweek and The Hill both identified Jon Fetterman, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock as Democrats who voted in favor of the reappropriation measure that Republicans advanced, marking them as the handful of Democratic defections in the October 2025 vote [1] [2].
4. How to interpret “how many Democrats voted against” in the 2025 episode
Because reporting characterizes the vote as largely party‑line and explicitly names the three Democrats who voted with Republicans, the implication in the supplied sources is that nearly the entire Senate Democratic caucus opposed the Republican bill—i.e., all Democrats except those three—though the exact numeric subtraction (Democratic caucus size minus three) is not calculated in the supplied snippets and therefore cannot be asserted from these materials alone [1] [2] [3].
5. Political context and competing narratives captured by the sources
Republican statements frame the Democratic opposition as refusing to “pay the troops” and playing politics with service members’ pay, a line advanced in multiple Republican press releases and House messaging [5] [6] [7]. Democrats and their defenders counter that taking up a stand‑alone defense or pay bill would strip leverage needed to secure parallel funding priorities—healthcare, housing, and other appropriations—and thus would be a bad precedent to fund the military in isolation [3] [8].
6. What can and cannot be concluded from the supplied reporting
From the supplied sources one can confidently say the October 2025 Republican troop‑pay and defense measures were blocked with most Senate Democrats opposing them and three Democrats identified as voting for the measure [1] [2]. What cannot be concluded from these same sources is how many Democrats voted against any specific “troop pay bill” in 2024, because no 2024 roll‑call or reporting on that precise question is present in the material provided [1].