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Has the Senate formally issued a demand or resolution asking the president to resign?
Executive summary
Available reporting in the provided sources does not show the Senate has formally issued a demand or resolution asking the president to resign; coverage instead focuses on Senate votes to end the 2025 government shutdown and internal Democratic criticism over those votes (e.g., calls for Senator Chuck Schumer to resign from within his party) [1] [2]. The Senate passed a continuing resolution 60–40 to reopen the government and the House later approved it before the president signed it, with no Senate resolution of presidential resignation reported in these items [3] [4].
1. What the Senate actually did: a vote to end the shutdown
The Senate’s recent, widely reported action was to advance and then pass a continuing resolution to end the federal government shutdown — the decisive procedural vote cleared by a 60–40 margin when several Democrats joined Republicans, and reporting describes the measure as a funding package to re-open government operations [4] [5]. That procedural and final passage moved the CR to the House and ultimately produced a House vote and a presidential signature that ended the shutdown [3] [6].
2. No Senate demand for presidential resignation in these accounts
None of the provided articles or summaries describe the Senate issuing a formal demand or resolution that the president resign. The items focus on legislative maneuvering to fund the government, the partisan breakdown of votes, and consequences for senators who crossed the caucus — not on a Senate resolution calling for the president’s resignation [4] [5] [6]. Available sources do not mention a Senate demand for resignation.
3. Where the calls for resignation do appear — intra-party targeting
What the sources do document is internal Democratic pressure and public calls for resignations within the party’s own leadership: progressive groups and Democratic activists urged Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to step down after a bloc of Democrats supported the funding deal without securing extended ACA subsidies [1] [2] [7]. Those demands were aimed at a Senate leader, not at the president, and arose from anger over perceived betrayal on policy leverage [1] [8].
4. Why confusion might arise — protests, rhetoric, and pardons in coverage
The news cycle around the shutdown included highly charged rhetoric, broader stories about presidential pardons and other developments, and intense activism that can blur who is being targeted by calls to quit. For example, coverage noted the White House issuing pardons for figures tied to past post‑election legal efforts while the shutdown drama continued — coverage that likely heightened partisan intensity but did not report a Senate resolution for presidential resignation [9] [6].
5. Multiple perspectives in the reporting
Reporting documented competing views: some Democrats and progressive organizations called for leadership accountability (calling for Schumer’s resignation) while the moderate Democrats who voted to advance the CR defended their vote as the only viable way to reopen government and protect federal workers’ pay [10] [1]. The Senate’s action was thus framed by outlets as both a pragmatic step to end the shutdown and a politically fraught move within the Democratic caucus [10] [4].
6. What would count as a formal Senate demand — and absence here
A formal Senate demand for a president’s resignation would typically take shape as a resolution or public, chamber-wide vote calling for that outcome. The provided sources list only votes to pass or advance appropriations/continuing resolutions and internal calls for party-leader resignations; they contain no mention of any Senate resolution urging the president to resign. Therefore, on the question asked, the record in these items is clear: no such Senate-issued demand or formal resolution asking the president to resign is reported [4] [3].
7. Limitations and next steps for confirmation
This assessment uses only the supplied articles about the 2025 shutdown and related political fallout. If you want absolute certainty beyond these items, consult the full Congressional Record, official Senate resolutions pages, or additional national reporting for any contemporaneous resolution text or floor action specifically demanding presidential resignation — those sources are not included among the materials provided here, so available sources do not mention them [3] [4].
Summary: the Senate’s recent, reported actions centered on ending the shutdown via a 60–40 vote on a continuing resolution; dissenting voices called for Senate leadership accountability, not for the president’s resignation, and the supplied reporting contains no formal Senate demand that the president resign [4] [1].