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Congressional votes that precipitated the 2025 government shutdown split sharply along party lines in both chambers, with a handful of Democrats breaking with their party in the Senate to advance fund...
It takes 60 votes in the Senate to invoke cloture and overcome a filibuster on a continuing resolution in most cases (three-fifths of the full Senate) — often described as “60 votes” when the Senate i...
The Born in the USA Act was introduced by Senator Jacky Rosen and a slate of Senate Democrats to block implementation of President Trump’s January 20, 2025 executive order targeting birthright citizen...
House Democrats overwhelmingly opposed the short-term continuing resolutions (CRs) put forward by Republicans, with multiple reports indicating , while a small number of Senate Democrats broke ranks t...
Senate Democrats repeatedly blocked a Republican "clean" continuing resolution to end the government shutdown, with a pivotal procedural vote on October 28, 2025, failing 54-45 and falling short of th...
The term “Born in America” has been used in two separate contexts in 2025 reporting: a Democratic-sponsored Born in the USA Act (Senate S.646 / House H.R.3368 and related House cosponsor materials) th...
Ending the Senate filibuster in 2025 would remove the 60-vote threshold for most legislation and give the majority party the power to enact its agenda by simple majority, a change that could dramatica...
Republicans in the Senate have moved to advance a House-passed, GOP-backed continuing resolution to reopen and fund the government , but each cloture or advancement attempt has failed to reach the 60-...
Eight Senate Democrats voted to advance the funding bill that ended the 2025 shutdown, giving the measure the 60 votes needed to overcome the filibuster; major outlets list those senators (including T...
Several moderate and swing-state Senate Democrats have publicly tied conditions to ending the 2025 government shutdown, but the landscape is fragmented: New Hampshire’s senators are explicit about dem...
The reporting shows a pattern: . Key Democratic leaders — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries — framed the dispute around health-care tax credits, SNAP autho...
Two Democrats—Senators John Fetterman (Pa.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.)—and one independent who caucuses with Democrats, Angus King (Maine), crossed party lines to vote for a Republican-led “cle...
Reporting and public records show no Senate vote on a bill called the “Born in America” Act that removed naturalized or dual‑citizen federal officeholders; the viral claim conflated multiple real prop...
Tribal leaders, advocates and some members of Congress denounced the Department of Justice’s removal of the Not One More / Not Invisible Act commission report from the DOJ website as harmful and polit...
The White House and Department of Justice officials have told lawmakers and reporters the congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans was removed from federal websites to ...
Eight Senate Democrats broke with most of their party to back a bipartisan package that reopened the federal government, trading immediate funding through January 2026 and protections for federal work...
Eight senators who caucus with Democrats voted to advance a short‑term funding bill that enabled a deal to end the government shutdown; those senators included a mix of retirees, independents, and mem...
The reopening deal that moved through the Senate in 2025 passed with backing from a coalition that included , even as Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell publicly opposed the measure. Reporting a...
Seven to eight Senate Democrats broke with party leadership to advance the 2025 short-term funding bill, joining Republicans and Independent Angus King to move a compromise that would reopen the gover...
The clean funding resolution was principally opposed by , led publicly by Sen. Chuck Schumer, who objected because the measure omitted a permanent extension of enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies a...