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Available reporting from March–June 2025 identifies at least three Republican politicians arrested or criminally charged in 2025 on crimes involving minors: Minnesota state Sen. Justin Eichorn (arrest...
The Republican Party has pursued repeated efforts to repeal or modify the Affordable Care Act (ACA) across legislative votes, major “repeal‑and‑replace” bills, targeted statutory rollbacks, and legal ...
Congress did not enact any of the full FY2026 appropriations bills and failed to pass a stopgap continuing resolution before the October 1 funding deadline, producing the 2025 shutdown; the immediate ...
Two recent, documented cases tie individuals aligned with the MAGA political orbit to criminal convictions or guilty pleas for child exploitation offenses: former South Carolina Rep. RJ May, charged a...
Discharge petitions are rarely successful: the procedure is designed to be difficult and has “rarely been used successfully,” with just two petitions reaching the 218-signature threshold in the 21st c...
The balance of evidence in the provided analyses indicates that the , holding a narrow majority. Multiple contemporaneous reports describe Republicans holding roughly 218–220 seats versus about 213–21...
Rep. Chip Roy has advanced claims tying immigration and national-security threats to policies he says are enabling harmful actors — including a proposal to “freeze” legal immigration until a suite of ...
Multiple documented instances show Republican lawmakers and Republican-affiliated figures have been accused of sexual misconduct involving minors or of enabling those who did, and recent investigation...
At least two elected Republican officials were arrested or formally charged with sex-related crimes in 2025 according to the reporting available: North Dakota State Sen. Ray Holmberg (whose case resul...
A discharge petition is an uncommon but consequential parliamentary tool that forces a bill out of committee and onto the House floor when 218 members sign; historically only a handful of measures rea...
The One Big Beautiful Bill (H.R. 1) passed the Senate 51–50 and the House by narrow margins—House recorded votes show a 218–214 concurrence on July 3, 2025, and an earlier House passage at 215–214 on ...
Top Senate Democrats who have driven strategy in recent continuing‑resolution (CR) standoffs include Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Whip Dick Durbin and a mix of centrist senators whose votes have swu...
In January 2025 the debate over continuing resolutions (CRs) produced sharply different reactions: many Republican leaders and conservative groups framed longer or full-year CRs as a tool to lock in l...
Republican opposition to the 2025 continuing resolution (CR) split along two lines: a vocal bloc of House conservatives demanding policy changes and spending cuts — led publicly by Reps. Chip Roy and ...
Republican demands in the current budget negotiations center on a package of spending caps, entitlement changes, tax and trade priorities, and targeted health‑subsidy conditions that together aim to s...
Several analyses identify a string of blocked appropriations and high‑stakes disputes across 2024–2025, with disagreements producing procedural defeats, supplemental bill rejections, and reliance on c...
The various analyses agree that the 2025 shutdown negotiations centered on the top congressional leaders in each chamber, with repeatedly identified as principal players, alongside a cohort of Senate ...
Conservative Republicans most often oppose “clean” continuing resolutions (CRs) because they view such stopgap funding as a mechanism that preserves existing spending levels and forecloses bargaining ...
A House spending measure that would have averted the 2024 shutdown was defeated on December 19, 2024, by a 174–235 vote, with and thus directly contributing to the shutdown; Representative Chip Roy is...
Two broad, partially conflicting claims appear across the supplied analyses: several conservative House Republicans publicly supported a *clean* continuing resolution (CR) to avoid a shutdown, while a...