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Potential government shutdown due to disagreements over Department of Homeland Security funding
Seven House Democrats broke with most of their party to vote for the spending bill — a measure that keeps roughly flat and includes about $10 billion for -and-customs-enforcement">Immigration and Cust...
has enacted a small set of appropriations into law and advanced a three‑bill minibus through both chambers, but most discretionary programs remain on a short-term that expires —leaving nine appropriat...
— , , , , , and — joined to pass the amid outrage over ; their public explanations ranged from explicitly citing the need to avert a to invoking incremental s included in the measure, while many membe...
As of January 24, 2026, remained covered only by a temporary continuing resolution that runs through January 30, 2026, meaning . Lawmakers’ contingency plans centered on short-term stopgaps (the CR), ...
Seven Democrats crossed party lines to vote for the appropriations bill; reporting identifies who they were but contains only limited, specific public explanations for that choice, with Representative...
Multiple independent data pulls and media analyses indicate that a substantial majority of people in ICE custody during late 2025 and into early 2026 had no criminal convictions; published tallies pla...
are refusing to provide the votes to advance the that includes funding unless the DHS portion is rewritten to include enforceable limits on and tactics and stronger accountability measures — demands t...
Seven Democrats — , , , , and — broke with most of their caucus to back the funding bill; their public rationales, as reported, emphasize avoiding a and preserving funding for specific DHS functions l...
OMB Circular A-11 directs agencies to identify which activities and personnel may continue during a lapse in appropriations — so-called “excepted” functions and employees — and to furlough workers per...
Passing a continuing resolution (CR) instead of final appropriations keeps the government operating by extending prior funding levels for a set time, but it freezes priorities, creates uncertainty for...
have signaled a mix of public opposition and tactical restraint: many leaders and progressive senators are vowing to oppose the funding bill as written because it lacks what they call meaningful const...
No contemporary reporting in the provided sources identifies specific House Democrats who publicly explained—and were quoted defending—why they voted to pass H.R. 7006 while objecting to riders such a...
The signed to reopen government provided full-year FY2026 appropriations for three of the 12 regular bills—Agriculture; Military Construction, Veterans Affairs (MilCon-VA); and the Legislative Branch—...
A precise, year-by-year list of for 2017–2025 is a straightforward request, but the reporting provided here does not contain a single, completed table of those nine calendar-year figures; authoritativ...
Senators who opposed the -deadlines">continuing resolution (CR) did so at the intersection of three pressures: interchamber dealmaking that left policy fault lines unresolved, Senate-specific procedur...
The name "Coalition for Common Sense in Government" is used by more than one organization and grouping in U.S. public life; most commonly it refers either to the Coalition for Common Sense in Governme...
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has publicly refused to allow a multi-bill spending package to advance if it includes funding absent specific , and he has signaled will strip DHS from the broader packag...
A after the continuing resolution () that covers nine of the 12 regular FY2026 appropriations would force appropriated, discretionary programs to “cease or scale back” immediately and could trigger fu...
oversight offices in 2025 substantially reduced the federal capacity to open and carry out independent postmortem investigations of deaths in immigration custody, with staff reductions and funding rol...
Evidence shows the phrase -responsibility">"Democrat shutdown" was not confined to the far right; it was widely used by , and allied communications, and echoed in and some mainstream commentary, while...