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Republican leaders publicly framed reopening the government as an urgent, practical priority while resisting Democratic demands to tie short‑term funding to policy changes like extending Affordable Ca...
Roger Wicker — the Republican chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee — explicitly joined a bipartisan request for an expedited inspector general review and said the panel would seek a classified...
A majority of the analyses agree that , a Class II cycle that includes several high-profile seats and a handful of notable retirements. Sources differ on specific retirements and competitive dynamics,...
Two clusters of senators publicly opposed the 2025 government reopening deal: a slate of conservative Republicans who rejected the proposal as politically unacceptable or a nonstarter, and a number of...
The 2025 Continuing Resolution (CR) deadlock has prompted multiple stopgap offers and competing proposals but no single, broadly supported concession has resolved the impasse: Senate Democrats floated...
Multiple contemporaneous reports from November 2025 identify and as the principal Senate figures steering shutdown negotiations, with playing a leading role for the House GOP in parallel talks. Severa...
Republican senators — not governors — have been the principal GOP negotiators seeking to avert recent federal shutdowns, with names repeatedly cited including ; those talks produced competing Senate p...
Senate and House leaders are the central actors who can resolve the 2025 budget impasse by negotiating stopgap funding, convening bipartisan talks, and brokering compromises between the White House an...