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U.S. Representative from Connecticut
President Trump has been accused of multiple statutory and criminal violations while in office, including alleged unlawful removal of an inspector general, impoundment of FEMA appropriations, and mass...
November 2025 saw a flurry of high‑profile departures and public talk of further exits inside and around the Trump administration: Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene resigned in a surprise announce...
Connecticut’s five seats in the U.S. House of Representatives for the 119th Congress (2025–2027) are held by John B. Larson (1st), Joe Courtney (2nd), Rosa DeLauro (3rd), Jim Himes (4th), and Jahana H...
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...
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...
Connecticut ended the 2024 U.S. House elections with in its congressional delegation; all five U.S. House seats were won by Democratic incumbents. Multiple post-election accounts compiled shortly afte...
Two claims emerge from the materials: one asserts that , citing the longest shutdown under Republican President Donald Trump and multiple shutdowns during President Reagan’s tenure; the other frames s...
Democratic governors are publicly warning that the 2025 shutdown and related federal budget changes will shrink Medicaid coverage, shift costs to states or private insurers, and harm rural hospitals, ...
Senate Democrats have put forward alternative funding approaches tied to specific policy conditions, most prominently seeking an extension of expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits as leverage to re...
House Appropriations Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro is clearly identified in contemporaneous 2024 statements as a Democratic leader who , advocating bipartisan negotiations and specific funding targets t...
House Democrats uniformly criticize Speaker Mike Johnson’s decision to keep the House in recess as the government shutdown looms, calling the move , an attempt to , and evidence that Republicans are p...
Democratic lawmakers pushed to include substantial disaster relief and FEMA funding in the 2025 Continuing Resolution (CR) to accelerate recovery after a string of recent disasters and to shore up FEM...
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries has pushed negotiations toward as key 2025 priorities, framing these as necessary to protect families and federal workers affected by the shutdown . In the Sena...
Connecticut's 2024 congressional delegation remained entirely Democratic: following the November 2024 elections. Reporting from state and national election trackers and post-election summaries consist...
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...