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The Senate can use the so‑called to change its rules, including the 60‑vote cloture threshold, because the chamber is the master of its own procedures; however, whether lawmakers will or can sensibly ...
No federal agency has announced a universal $2,000 stimulus payment scheduled for December 2025; multiple local fact checks and regional news outlets report that the $2,000 claim is a rumor or would r...
No federal $2,000 "tariff dividend" or new universal December stimulus check has been finalized or widely approved; reporting shows proposals and administration talk but no IRS confirmation of a $2,00...
The Senate voted 51–49 on September 10–11 to set aside Democratic efforts to force public release of the Jeffrey Epstein case files; , while two Republicans — Sens. Josh Hawley and Rand Paul — joined ...
A provision slipped into the November 2025 government funding bill lets “any United States Senator” seek statutory damages—reported as $500,000 per violation and potentially up to $1 million under som...
The motion to block public release of Justice Department files related to Jeffrey Epstein was carried by a Senate vote on Sept. 10–11, 2025, with . Several Republican senators are explicitly named in ...
Congress did not record a single unified roll-call “against SNAP funding” vote; instead, prevented immediate passage of bills or resolutions to keep benefits flowing. Key named congressional actors wh...
Congressional activity in 2025 features competing proposals that would both expand access to SNAP in some bills and sharply change its structure and requirements in others; the largest and most conseq...
Republican lawmakers assert the Biden administration’s FBI “tapped” or “spied on” the phones of multiple GOP members of Congress, pointing to declassified investigative records showing the FBI obtaine...
Republicans in the Senate voted to block measures that would have forced public release of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein’s investigations, with close roll-call defeats and strong party-line res...
The “tariff rebate” proposal discussed by the White House and some GOP lawmakers would convert some tariff revenue into refundable tax credits or direct payments to taxpayers; sponsors have suggested ...
Senate Republicans did block a bid to force a vote that would have required the Justice Department to release its Jeffrey Epstein files: Senate GOP leaders and a majority of Republican senators voted ...
Available reporting shows the claim “Republican Senators have voted 12 times to fund SNAP; Democrat Senators have voted 12 times to NOT fund” is a simplification of a complex shutdown fight over targe...
The FBI obtained phone “tolling data” — metadata showing call times, numbers called, duration and general location — for eight Republican senators and one House Republican as part of its Arctic Frost ...
There is no federal stimulus program already approved for December 2025; Congress has not authorized a new nationwide payment and the IRS has not confirmed any December 2025 federal checks . Past pand...
Available reporting shows no Congress‑authorized, IRS‑confirmed universal “December 2025 stimulus check.” President Trump has proposed a $2,000 “tariff dividend” to be funded by tariff revenue, and a ...
President Trump has floated a proposal to pay a “tariff dividend” of at least $2,000 per person funded by tariff revenues, and White House officials have said the payments would exclude “high income p...
Multiple concrete proposals to redistribute tariff revenue to U.S. citizens have circulated in 2025: President Donald Trump publicly proposed a “tariff dividend” of roughly $1,000–$2,000 per person dr...
Senate Republicans broadly rejected Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s tactic of insisting on a single-issue food-stamps vote and instead pushed for reopening the government or targeted federal-em...
The verifiable, analysis-provided record indicates the U.S. Senate vote on a measure tied to releasing the Epstein files was , meaning . Congressional activity in the House includes at least one named...