Which congressional votes and continuing resolutions occurred in January 2025 during the shutdown?
Executive summary
There is no evidence in the supplied reporting that any congressional votes or continuing resolutions during a government shutdown took place in January 2025; the sources instead describe a 2025 shutdown that began October 1, 2025, was ended by a continuing resolution enacted in November 2025 that extended funding into January 2026, and a looming January 30, 2026 deadline that prompted further votes and proposals [1] [2] [3]. Reporting shows January 2026 was the critical month for follow‑on votes and competing continuing resolution options, not January 2025 [4] [5] [6].
1. The question being asked vs. the record: January 2025 is not the month described in the sources
The assembled documents do not document a shutdown spanning into January 2025; instead they chronicle a funding fight that began October 1, 2025, and a stopgap law—H.R.5371—signed in November 2025 that provided continuing appropriations through January 30, 2026, effectively ending that shutdown [1] [2] [3]. If the intent was to ask which votes and CRs occurred in the January that followed the shutdown, the relevant month in the sources is January 2026, not January 2025 [1] [4].
2. The central continuing resolution that shaped January 2026 activity
Congress enacted the Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026 (H.R.5371), which ended the October 2025 shutdown by providing continuing FY2026 appropriations for most agencies through the earlier of January 30, 2026, or enactment of full-year bills; it also provided back pay and protected against reductions‑in‑force tied to the shutdown (Congress.gov summary, H.R.5371) [1]. Official roll‑call records and summary pages on the Senate and House sites identify H.R.5371 as the measure making these continuing appropriations [3] [1].
3. What happened in January as a result: looming deadlines and competing proposals
Because H.R.5371 only extended funding through January 30, 2026, several outlets reported that January would be dominated by fresh proposals and votes to either pass final appropriations for the remainder of FY2026 or to adopt another continuing resolution to avert a new shutdown when that CR expired (CT Mirror; The Hill) [4] [5]. Reporting flagged a range of options lawmakers discussed for January: a short-term CR, a longer “yearlong” CR, or a bundle of full‑year appropriations for specific departments—moves that required more floor time and were expected to prompt multiple votes [6] [7].
4. Specific January legislative actions reported or foreshadowed
The sources do not list discrete, named roll‑call votes that took place in January 2026, but they record that Congress returned to bargaining with plans to try again on funding packages in early January and that House Republican leaders unveiled new spending proposals intended to avoid the January 30 deadline (a roughly $174 billion package reported by Fox News) as part of floor maneuvering and expected votes in late January [8] [9]. Several outlets warned that if negotiators failed, Congress would rely on another stopgap CR while continuing to negotiate the remaining nine appropriations bills [4] [5].
5. Political framing, divergent narratives, and reporting limits
Different actors framed the January fight in politically charged terms: House Republicans emphasized “clean” CRs and full‑year bills as restoring order (House Appropriations press material), while Democrats pushed linking funding to policy wins such as health‑insurance premium subsidies—claims reflected in news coverage that tied Democratic negotiating priorities to the calendar for January votes [10] [2] [6]. The supplied sources do not, however, provide a single, sourced list of roll‑call results from January 2026, nor do they document any votes in January 2025 during a shutdown; therefore definitive, date‑by‑date vote tallies for January require consulting the official House and Senate roll‑call archives beyond the current set [3].