Clean Budget Coalition

Shutdown Deal Kills Food Safety Rules After lobbyists spent big on the Trump administration and Democratic defectors, the government funding bill cut food-contamination rules and limited ultraprocessed-food research.

After lobbyists spent big on the Trump administration and Democratic defectors, the government funding bill cut food-contamination rules and limited ultraprocessed-food research.
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John Thune secures provision in government funding bill letting senators sue for phone records seizure

Will the big, beautiful, orange pumpkin rot before Congress and the President act to stop premiums from doubling? Watch our livestream to find out and name the pumpkin!!

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55-45, Senate GOP short-term funding bill FAILS.

52 Republicans + Fetterman (D-Pa.), Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), and King (I-Maine) vote YES.

44 Democrats + Paul (R-Ky.) vote NO.

It needed 60 votes to pass.

Shutdown hits at midnight.

YouTube video by Fair Share America Healthcare Over Billionaires Rally

Trump and Republicans in Congress are shutting down the government tonight at midnight.

People are rallying at the U.S. Capitol right now.

Watch the livestream:
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Trump and Republicans have been shutting things down since Day One.

They've fired countless federal workers, dismantled entire agencies, lawlessly withheld funds, and upended checks and balances.

Now they're threating all of us with a full shutdown unless they get a blank check for even more.

Federal workers unions call on Schumer, Jeffries to hold the line even if it means a shutdown “Federal workers will willingly forego paychecks in the hopes of preserving the programs we have devoted our lives to administering,” the unions said.

With a shutdown less than 36 hours away, federal workers and their unions who would be directly impacted by it are calling on congressional leaders to hold the line.
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Senator Van Hollen on Twitter: “This is mafia-style blackmail, plain and simple. These workers have nothing to do with the ongoing disputes that have brought us to the brink of a shutdown. It's not only an attack on Americans' services and benefits — it's also likely illegal. We'll be fighting back with all we've got.”

With the funding deadline just a few days away, Trump is focused on holding the government hostage to lock in his healthcare cuts and hand the regime more unchecked power.

Tell your Democratic senator to hold the line against any deals that give Trump a blank check: indivisible.org/campaign/gov...

Get this: The White House is pushing us to a government shut down AND threatening to carry out large-scale FIRINGS.

Trump is trying to bully Congress into a budget that destroys health care.

They must not back down in the face of this reprehensible & unAmerican threat.

With five days to a shutdown, the Trump White House is threatening to fire more federal workers.

This is the correct response.

With six days to a shutdown, Trump and the GOP have a new message:

Give us what we want or we'll hurt you!

1) This is how dictators govern, not presidents.

2) Threatening to harm the public is NOT how you win friends and influence people.

Just one week to go until a shutdown.

Trump and Republicans are still refusing to even talk with Democrats.

Ranting in allcaps won't change whose fault that is.

Just 8 days until a government shutdown.

Republicans need to come to the negotiating table ASAP.

The Democratic CR: Failed 47-45
The Republican CR: Failed 44-48

It takes 60 votes to pass, and the partisan Republican version couldn't even get a majority.

Very embarrassing for them!

Capitol agenda: CRs hit the floor Lawmakers are expected to vote Friday on competing continuing resolutions as a shutdown deadline approaches.

With 11 days to go until a shutdown, both chambers of Congress are expected to vote today on stopgap funding bills.
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With 12 days to go until a government shutdown, a bipartisan CR is the only way forward.

13 days until a government shutdown.

Like it or not, the annual appropriations process forces bipartisanship in the Senate.

Republicans need to come to the table and negotiate a funding deal that lawmakers in both parties can live with.

Trump to GOP: Vote yes on the ‘clean’ CR The president is pressuring Republicans to back GOP leaders' short-term stopgap funding plan.

With 14 days until the funding deadline, Trump is now demanding a clean CR.

We'll be watching closely to see if the stopgap funding bill that House Republicans propose is actually clean -- meaning free from any poison pill policy riders.
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It's 15 days to a government shutdown.

Congress must pass clean funding legislation free from any poison pill policy riders.

House Republicans have added 325 poison pills to spending bills this year So far this year, House Republicans have added more than 325 poison pill riders to their draft spending bills. I know, because right now I’m the guy in all of...

House Republicans have added hundreds of poison pill policy riders to the annual spending bills.

These harmful measures stand in the way of deals to fund the government.

All of them must be removed from any final spending package.
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The Clean Budget Coalition homepage now features a "slider of riders."

It has examples of some of the absurd and harmful poison pills that House Republicans added to the annual spending bills.

Check it out here:
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House Republicans have added hundreds of poison pill policy riders to the must-pass annual spending bills.

Lawmakers need to hear from you now.

Tell Congress to remove ALL of the harmful poison pills from any final spending package.

More Than 220 Groups Tell Congress: Pass a Clean Budget - Clean Budget Coalition WASHINGTON, D.C. – More than 220 organizations in the Clean Budget Coalition told Congress to pass appropriations bills free from poison pill policy riders that harm the public in a letter sent today....

NEW: 220+ groups tell Congress to pass a clean budget.

Already we've found nearly 60 poison pills in the House's five draft FY 26 spending bills released so far.

All of the culture war riders and special favors for industry must be removed!
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Four of the House's draft FY 26 spending bills have been posted so far, and our coalition has spotted about 55 new poison pill riders in total.

They're mostly a mix of culture war attacks and attempts to block Biden era rules. All of them must be removed from any final package.

DeLauro uses her opening statement to tear Russ Vought a new one

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The Constitution makes it clear: Congress, not the White House holds the power of the purse.

Join me and @democrats-appropriations.house.gov in our hearing with OMB Director Russ Vought to discuss the Administration’s illegal stealing of American dollars: youtu.be/k1sZP7VW8is

A shutdown starts at midnight tonight, and there is still time to reject the GOP's harmful, partisan slush-fund for Trump and Musk.

Their CR also would impose draconian spending cuts on Washington, D.C., which would be devastating for children in the nation’s capital.

More than 160 groups oppose the House GOP's partisan, slush fund CR.

The government shuts down on Friday at midnight.

SCHUMER: “Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort but Republicans chose a partisan path, drafting their continuing resolution without any input—any input—from congressional Democrats. Because of that, Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke cloture on the House CR."

Republicans are NOT trying to responsibly fund the government.

Their partisan CR is a slush fund for Trump and Musk to wield and ignore as they see fit.