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Leader of the majority party in the US Senate
The Senate has no direct analogue to the House Speaker; the functional role most often described as the Senate's equivalent is the Senate majority leader, who in practice manages the chamber’s floor a...
The documents under review make three core claims: the 2025 shutdown began October 1, the House has repeatedly passed funding measures (reported as 14 CRs), and the House has been largely inactive on ...
Senate and House Democrats are refusing a stopgap government funding bill primarily because it does not , which Democrats say would cause millions to lose coverage; Republicans insist on a "clean" con...
House Republicans in the 2025 shutdown talks pressed for changes tied to the Affordable Care Act, demanding a future vote on health-care legislation and restrictions on ACA subsidies, while also pushi...
The available evidence shows of how House committee chairs and rank-and-file members specifically shaped the final 2025 continuing resolution (CR) compromise; reporting and contemporaneous analyses in...
Democratic leaders including Senate Majority Leader and House Minority Leader have signaled conditions for reopening federal agencies centered on and ; individual Senate Democrats — especially a group...
Senate Democrats are principally demanding an extension of expiring Affordable Care Act premium subsidies — often described as or health insurance tax credits — be paired with any 2025 continuing reso...
Democrats are not unified in demanding immigration or border-security concessions to end the 2025 shutdown; the public record shows during talks. Reporting indicates some Democrats are willing to acce...
Republicans and Democrats can find discrete areas of bipartisan agreement that would enable a stopgap to reopen government and reduce shutdown risk, but entrenched make a comprehensive, durable budget...
The core problem with the Republican 2025 continuing resolution (CR) is that it has become a political flashpoint rather than a functional funding vehicle: House Republicans passed a “clean” short-ter...