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’s brief, dramatic rebellion against began with a 52-47 procedural vote to advance a war‑powers resolution that would constrain further strikes on and ended days later when Republican defections and a...
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 ...
The claim that is both amplified and muddled in reporting: and conservative outlets point to a viral Senate hearing exchange and to partisan messaging to assert Democrats endorse the statement , while...
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 ...
A discrete but identifiable set of nonprofits and advocacy organizations were publicly linked to anti-ICE protests in reporting that tracks organizing and responses; among the clearest actors named ar...
Five Senate Republicans initially joined all to advance a war‑powers resolution aimed at restraining ’s authority to conduct further military actions related to : , , , and . Two of those Republicans ...
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...
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...
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...
A growing number of congressional candidates pledged to refuse corporate PAC money in 2024 and into the 2026 cycle, from high‑profile House members running for higher office to incumbent senators who ...
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 ...
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 ...