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United States Senator from Washington since 2013
The conference text and reporting on the FY2026 Homeland Security appropriations package show a contested bill that broadly funds at $64.4 billion, maintains at roughly current levels while adding som...
Democrats and Republicans present fundamentally different when it comes to government funding: Democrats emphasize preserving and expanding social programs, healthcare subsidies, housing and climate i...
Members of Congress and the President continue to receive pay during a federal funding lapse because their compensation is governed by constitutional provisions and a statutory permanent appropriation...
The available analyses show no direct evidence that the Biden administration executed a coordinated, public program to “reverse” alleged federal funding cuts specifically targeted at blue states; inst...
Senate Democrats are the primary bloc blocking recent funding bills in the Senate votes described, refusing to advance stopgap measures until Republicans agree to negotiate extensions of expiring heal...
Congress played a mixed, active role in both blocking and enabling portions of the Trump administration’s proposed cuts to cancer and biomedical research: courts and Democratic-led House actions helpe...
Recent claims about Senator Mitch McConnell and other Republican leaders’ positions on extending Affordable Care Act (ACA) provisions are : historical votes show strong GOP opposition to the law, cont...
The core claim — that “Democrats blocked payment to government employees during the shutdown” — is : Senate Democrats voted against a specific Republican proposal to immediately pay certain federal wo...
Patty Murray is widely portrayed in these sources as a senior, influential senator whose long tenure and leadership roles have earned , particularly within the Senate Democratic caucus and among labor...
The reporting shows multiple senators filed amendments to the Continuing Resolution (CR) debate: Senator Lindsey Graham circulated a Senate amendment with policy and debt-limit changes, Senator Dick D...
A sizable bloc of , led publicly by and backed by appropriations leaders and Democratic appropriators, has demanded that funding include explicit “” to rein in after high-profile shootings; those dema...
on military spending: historically Democratic administrations have tended to trim on average when they take office, but Democratic lawmakers and presidents routinely support large and sometimes record...
Congress can use funding riders and NDAA language to reshape presidential use of force by tying money to narrow, enforceable conditions, stricter reporting, and statutory sunsets—while recognizing lim...
Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R‑La.), not John F. Kennedy Jr., has introduced a pair of bills aimed at pausing congressional pay during federal shutdowns — one called the No Shutdown Paychecks to Politicia...
From 2018 through 2025, reporting and records show a pattern of internal ICE reviews, independent audits and repeated civil litigation tied to detainee deaths — with watchdog groups and Congress deman...
Congress, many state officials, universities and private research advocates pushed back hard against the Trump administration’s repeated proposals and unilateral actions to cut NIH funding — blocking ...
The CR amendments proposed a mix of targeted policy changes and broad funding extensions: Senate proposals included debt-limit and billionaire tax provisions, while House and omnibus drafts focused on...
The various analyses agree that the 2025 shutdown negotiations centered on the top congressional leaders in each chamber, with repeatedly identified as principal players, alongside a cohort of Senate ...
Two threads of reporting converge: one set of pieces identifies a group of eight Democratic senators who offered amendments to the Continuing Resolution (CR) seeking protections for federal workers an...
Democratic leaders respond to Republican ACA repeal attempts by . In recent years Democrats have repeatedly offered short-term extensions or policy fixes to avert coverage losses while mobilizing mess...