Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Jimmy Gomez (CA-34)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Representative Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) released the following statement after the House passed the Republican shutdown deal:
“After 54 days, House Republicans finally showed up to work only to immediately throw working families under the bus. I voted NO on this disastrous government funding deal that does nothing to solve the real crisis families are facing.
“This deal might end the shutdown, but it lets healthcare tax credits expire, which means higher premiums, higher costs, and fewer people able to stay insured. Under Trump’s economy, families are already getting crushed by rent, groceries, and childcare. Republicans just voted to make it even worse.
“Across the country, people are opening letters from their insurance companies warning that next year their premiums could double or even triple. Regular, hard-working people are being forced to decide between keeping their coverage and keeping their jobs.
“While Trump and Republicans were cutting deals for the wealthy, Democrats spent more than 40 days fighting to extend the ACA subsidies that keep healthcare affordable for millions of Americans. And instead of fixing the healthcare crisis they helped create, Senate Republicans tucked in a secret provision in their final bill giving themselves the right to sue taxpayers for half a million dollars over data issues.
“But I didn’t stand shoulder to shoulder with my Democratic House colleagues through the longest shutdown in history just to give in now. I’ll keep fighting until every family, in Los Angeles and across the country, can afford the care they need without having to sacrifice everything else to get it.”
Source: United States House of Representatives – Representative Mike Johnson (LA-04)
House GOP Leadership Statement on Passage of Government Funding Bill to End the Democrat Shutdown and Reopen the Government
Washington, November 12, 2025
WASHINGTON — Speaker Johnson, Leader Scalise, Whip Emmer, and Chairwoman McClain released a statement after House Republicans passed and sent to President Trump’s desk the government funding bill to reopen the government after Washington Democrats kept it closed for 43 days, marking the longest government shutdown in American history.
“The Democrat Shutdown is finally over thanks to House and Senate Republicans. There is absolutely no question now that Democrats are responsible for millions of American families going hungry, millions of travelers left stranded in airports, and our troops left wondering if they would receive their next paycheck. It was the Democrat Party that voted 15 times to keep the government closed and force the longest shutdown in U.S. history.
“All of it was pointless and utterly foolish. Democrats admitted they used the American people as ‘leverage’ and hurt their constituents on purpose — but they got nothing for their selfish political stunt. Voters will remember which party played political games in an attempt to ‘look tough’ to their base, while real people suffered.
“Now that Republicans have succeeded in ending the Democrat Shutdown, we look forward to continuing our important legislative work delivering results for the American people.”
Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Raul Ruiz (36th District of California)
Washington, D.C. — Congressman Dr. Raul Ruiz (CA-25) released the following statement on the Partisan GOP Spending Bill.
“From the very start of the shutdown, I have fought to reopen the government, protect health care, and lower costs for working people. While the funding bill offers some relief for those hurt by the shutdown, it will also drive-up costs for millions of families by as much as $18,000 a year because it intentionally leaves out extending the Affordable Care Act tax credits. That’s why I’m voting no, and I’ll keep fighting to protect health care and lower costs for working people.”
A video on the Congressman’s vote can be found in English and Spanish, here.
Source: United States House of Representatives – Representative Brian Babin (R-TX)
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Congressman Brian Babin (TX-36) released the following statement after voting to end the government shutdown and reopen the federal government:
“For 43 days, Democrats held the government hostage and forced needless hardship on American families, workers, and communities. After weeks of chaos and obstruction, they finally caved to reality and joined Republicans and President Trump in reopening the government. Thanks to Republican leadership, we passed a clean, responsible continuing resolution that immediately reopens the government, blocks another bloated Christmas omnibus, and puts an end to the Democrats’ political games. Democrats caused this shutdown, inflicted the pain, and walked away with nothing. Republicans and President Trump are fighting to restore regular order, return to line-by-line budgeting, and prioritize taxpayers. We are fighting for the America First agenda and to bring fiscal sanity back to Washington.”
Source: United States House of Representatives – Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (12th District of Michigan)
Dingell to Vote ‘No’ on Partisan Spending Bill
Washington, November 12, 2025
Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-06) released the following statement ahead of the House vote on the Senate Amendment to H.R. 5371, the Republican Spending Bill.
“We have a health care crisis in this country. American families cannot afford to go to the doctor, and if they can, they can’t afford the prescriptions or follow-up care they need. Because of skyrocketing costs, millions of Americans will have to forego coverage or make impossible choices like whether to pay for health insurance or groceries. We tried for weeks to get Republicans to come to the table and figure out a plan to make health care more affordable – but they refused. I’m voting no on this spending bill that will put basic health care further out of reach for millions of families.”
Source: United States House of Representatives – Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07)
“I promise you, if every member of Congress had to walk one day in the shoes of our dedicated federal workers or parents struggling to get their kids food and keep the lights on, this shutdown wouldn’t have lasted a day.”
“We’re going to keep fighting for you every day, and voting decisively HELL NO, because that is what you deserve from your member of Congress.”
WASHINGTON – Ahead of the House’s vote on Senate Republicans’ funding bill, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), a member of the Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC), joined her DWC colleagues to condemn Trump and Republicans’ attacks on healthcare and make clear that she will keep up the fight to save healthcare for women, families, and communities across the country. Congresswoman Pressley will vote no on the funding bill, which does nothing to address the Republican healthcare crisis and surge in Affordable Care Act (ACA) premiums families are facing.
In her remarks, Rep. Pressley shared the story of Paula, a constituent from the Massachusetts 7th, who depends on the ACA to care for her sick husband and who worries that the healthcare coverage that once saved them could soon be out of reach.
A full transcript of the Congresswoman’s speech is below and video is available here.
Transcript: Ahead of Vote on Spending Bill, Pressley, DWC Condemn Trump and Republicans’ Attacks on Healthcare House of Representatives November 12, 2025 Good afternoon, grateful for the leadership of our Chair Teresa Leger-Fernandez, grateful to all of my sister colleagues.
I live by the ethos that the people closest to the pain should be the closest to the power, driving and informing the policymaking.
And with our storytellers and in my sister colleagues, we demonstrate that because women have always been the closest to the pain.
We have always disparately borne the brunt of whatever society’s ills or hardships are, policy negligence, policy violence.
The closest analog we have to this moment is the pandemic, which was wholesale harm.
We know that there was a she-cession there. There are more women pushed out of the workforce than there were men. So we always bear the brunt, but we are also always on the front line of the fight, the fight to defend everyone and the fight forward and today is certainly no different.
So we’re all here because we are doing what women do, which is give a damn.
Give a damn about our families, our neighbors, our communities.
Women always show up to remind us of our shared humanity in moments of consequence, and today, it’s the Democratic women in the House.
I promise you, if every member of Congress had to walk one day in the shoes of our dedicated federal workers or parents struggling to get their kids food and keep the lights on, this shutdown wouldn’t have lasted a day.
Our Republican colleagues are as callous as they are clueless about the everyday struggles of people.
We know that there is no deficit of resource, only a deficit of empathy.
60 senators wouldn’t have signed off if they knew what it was to walk in our shoes on the false choice between people’s food, their paycheck, and their health care.
Hungry mothers and fathers wake up every day in this country and scrape together breakfast for their babies while they go without.
They wait for the bus, hoping that they have enough fare to get on it.
They go to work and clock hours, sometimes a second or third shift, and still they can’t make ends meet.
I think Republicans know exactly what they’re doing, but maybe, just maybe, they’re so out of touch they didn’t realize what they were doing when they stole food from hungry families and sent health care costs soaring.
Do they know what happens when someone opens the mail and sees their insurance is about to double?
There are no bootstraps to pull on. There are no belts to further tighten. They will go without health insurance. They will put off preventative care, and they will pray that they don’t end up in the ER.
Recently, a constituent in the Massachusetts 7th shared her fears with me, Paula.
Before the pandemic, Paula and her husband could afford their premiums. It wasn’t easy, but they made it work.
Then her husband lost his job and their insurance and the Affordable Care Act became their lifeline. It carried them through years of uncertainty, while she took on the role of his caregiver when he became ill.
Now, she’s worried that the coverage that once saved them could soon be out of reach.
Each year, she feels that lifeline slipping a little further away, and she’s fearing her family will go bankrupt.
Our government should provide basic goods and services.
Government shouldn’t abandon people, and it shouldn’t take the word rug out from hard working people who fought so hard to get an even footing.
None of this—here’s the rib—is naturally occurring.
This is the result of intentional, cruel policy choices. But it is not too late.
Today, Republicans can commit to actually addressing this health care crisis that they created.
Today, Republicans can tell the White House to stop playing games with people’s lives, with basic healthcare for children and families, and we will not let up.
Health care is not a nice-to-have. It is a must-have. It is a human right.
To each of my constituents, each of our neighbors, to each of our dedicated staff members, to the federal workers who are reeling from the uncertainty and cruelty of all of this:
The hurt and harm you are experiencing is undeniable, and so too was this moment 100% preventable.
And that’s what makes it so unconscionable. We’re going to keep fighting for you every day, and voting decisively HELL NO, because that is what you deserve from your member of Congress.
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Amid the Republican-manufactured government shutdown, Rep. Pressley has continued to fight to defend healthcare, reopen the government, and protect federal workers and the essential services they provide.
Source: United States House of Representatives – Julia Brownley (D-CA)
Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Julia Brownley (CA-26) announced that she joined Congressmen Scott Peters (CA-50), Dan Goldman (NY-10), and Raja Krishnamoorthi in introducing the Stop Excessive Force in Immigration Act, a bill to make our communities safer by establishing a stronger standard for Federal immigration agents’ use of force. All law enforcement officers should be focused on upholding public safety. Yet in recent months, the tactics of federal agents are more aggressive and dangerous, making everyone in our communities less safe.
The authority to use force is a serious responsibility, and every person has a right to be free from excessive use of force by law. The bill restricts Federal immigration enforcement agents’ use of crowd munitions like tear gas, aligns immigration enforcement with the heightened DOJ standards on use of force, and creates greater transparency in enforcement by requiring the use of body cameras and strictly limiting the use of masks.
“In July, my district, which encompasses most of Ventura County, was the site of one of the largest ICE operations in the country, resulting in more than 360 detentions in a single day. That operation also resulted in multiple injuries and one death,” said Congresswoman Brownley. “The troubling way these raids have been carried out throughout California and across the nation raises serious concerns about the tactics used by federal agents and their disregard for due process and the rule of law. This is not about public safety – it’s about instilling fear. These actions lack transparency, accountability, and basic respect for the legal rights of every person in this country. The Stop Excessive Force in Immigration Act is about restoring transparency, strengthening accountability, and ensuring that no agent of the federal government operates above the law or beyond public oversight. My colleagues and I will continue working to hold this administration accountable and to ensure that our immigration policies reflect our values, our Constitution, and our commitment to justice.”
“In May, Federal agents stormed into Buona Forchetta, a small, neighborhood restaurant that was filled with families. They threw the owner against the wall, handcuffed all employees, and used flash-bang grenades on concerned bystanders outside the restaurant. Why terrorize law-abiding, hardworking people? That makes no one safer; it makes Americans less safe,” said Congressman Peters. “Immigration enforcement should not be conducted by masked, unidentified agents using unchecked force and aggressively deploying tear gas, pepper balls, and flash bangs. We must curb excessive force and make it easier to identify officers acting improperly, while ensuring Federal law enforcement can still apprehend those who pose a genuine threat to public safety and national security.”
“ICE, CBP, and DHS agents must be held to the same constitutional standards as every other law enforcement officer,” said Congressman Krishnamoorthi. “Yet each day of the Trump Administration’s ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ brings a new story of excessive force being used in Chicago and its suburbs—from a faith leader shot with a pepperball while praying outside Broadview to a reporter struck while documenting ICE protests to my own constituents being terrorized for performing civilian oversight over DHS’s actions. This unchecked aggression against civilians must stop. Our Stop Excessive Force in Immigration Act restores transparency and safeguards both the public and law enforcement by ensuring clear standards, mandatory body cameras, and a fundamental respect for basic rights.”
“For months now, we all have seen how encounters with immigration enforcement mean chaos, violence, and trauma, regardless of immigration status. The Stop Excessive Force in Immigration Act brings humanity and transparency into those moments. It limits the use of militarized force and ensures that agents are accountable to the communities in which they operate. Every family deserves to feel safe. Every life deserves dignity,” said Angelica Salas, Executive Director, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA).
“Masked agents endangering our people with unnecessary force is an affront to the principles of American democracy,” said Deborah Weinstein, Executive Director, Coalition on Human Needs. “The Coalition on Human Needs is proud to endorse the Stop Excessive Force in Immigration Act and stands with Rep. Peters and co-sponsors in requiring accountability and careful restrictions on federal immigration officials’ use of force.”
“The Trump administration’s reckless and indiscriminate immigration enforcement actions have stoked fear in communities across the country,” said Nick Wilson, senior director of Gun Violence Prevention Policy, Center for American Progress. “We welcome the introduction of the Stop Excessive Force in Immigration Act, which seeks to ensure the safety of our communities and officers by implementing common sense standards to improve transparency and accountability in enforcement actions. Law enforcement should protect the public, not trample on people’s rights and put Americans at risk. This bill offers urgently needed guardrails and accountability mechanisms that ensure that federal law enforcement better protects and promotes the rights and safety of communities.”
“As ICE under President Trump pursues increasingly extreme actions against both immigrants and U.S. citizens, lawmakers must act to protect their constituents and uphold public safety. The Stop Excessive Force in Immigration Act does exactly that—ensuring federal officers have the tools they need to safeguard the public and themselves, without undermining the security of the communities they are supposed to serve,” said Sarah Pierce, Director of Social Policy, Third Way. “Its training, oversight, and proportionality requirements are especially critical as ICE expands its workforce through rushed recruitment and abbreviated onboarding. Immigration enforcement should strengthen public safety and the integrity of our immigration system—but never at the expense of the public’s security.”
In addition to Congresswoman Brownley and Congressmen Peters, Goldman, and Krishnamoorthi, other original cosponsors of the bill include Representatives Judy Chu (CA-28), Gil Cisneros (CA-31), Yvette Clarke (NY-09), Veronica Escobar (TX-16), Sylvia Garcia (TX-29), Robin Kelly (IL-02), Ro Khanna (CA-17), Doris Matsui (CA-07), Seth Moulton (MA-06), Jerrold Nadler (NY-12), Jimmy Panetta (CA-19), Mike Quigley (IL-05), Emily Randall (WA-06), Luz Rivas (CA-29), Linda Sanchez (CA-38), Brad Schneider (IL-10), Shri Thanedar (MI-13), Mike Thompson (CA-04), Juan Vargas (CA-52), and Nydia Velázquez (NY-07).
The Stop Excessive Force in Immigration Act is endorsed by The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), the Coalition on Human Needs, Church World Service, and Third Way.
Read the full text of the bill here. A one-pager is available here, and a Section-by-Section is available here. Examples of excessive use of force are available here.
Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Hakeem Jeffries (8th District of New York)
Today, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries and House Democrats held a press event, where they emphasized their opposition to the partisan Republican spending bill because it continues to gut the healthcare of the American people and fails to lower the high cost of living.
LEADER JEFFRIES: It’s a high honor and a distinct privilege to be joined today by Whip Katherine Clark, Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar, Members of House Democratic leadership and the House Democratic Caucus. House Democrats are here on the Capitol steps to reiterate our strong opposition to this spending bill because it fails to address the Republican healthcare crisis and it fails to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits. House Democrats will continue to support our men and women in uniform. We will continue to support hardworking federal employees. We will continue to support our law enforcement personnel. House Democrats will continue to support our air traffic controllers. We will continue to support our TSA agents. We will continue to support our civil servants who have been under attack since day one of the Trump administration.
But we cannot support the Republican effort to gut the healthcare of the American people. Today, House Democrats will introduce legislation to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits for three yearsto make sure that tens of millions of Americans don’t experience dramatically increased premiums, copays and deductibles.We believe that working-class Americans, middle-class Americans and everyday Americans deserve the same level of certainty that Republicans always provide to the wealthy, the well-off and the well-connected. The same level of certainty. And so we’re calling upon our Republican colleagues to join us and extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits. And we will be working hard today, tomorrow and throughout the balance of this year to make sure that those Affordable Care Act tax credits are extended.
Now, Republicans control the House, the Senate and the presidency. They own the mess that has been created in the United States of America. They own it. In a few hours, we will convene on the House Floor. And our message to the American people is, no matter what happens on the Floor later on today, our promise to you remains the same. House Democrats will continue to fight to make your life more affordable. House Democrats will continue the fight to address the Republican healthcare crisis. And House Democrats will fight to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits. This fight is not over. We’re just getting started. We’re just getting started.
Now, among the many outrageous things that has been said during the Trump-Republican shutdown or done during the Trump-Republican shutdown, the longest shutdown in American history, is that Donald Trump made the stunning claim that in his mind, he holds two titles, that he has two positions. Donald Trump says that he’s both the President and the Speaker of the House. That’s what Donald Trump said in the midst of him shutting down the government. And what we’ve seen from compliant, sycophantic Republicans, corrupt House Republicans, is they continue to go along to get along. They don’t function like a separate and co-equal branch of government. From the very beginning of this presidency and all the way through this Trump shutdown, Republicans in the House have continued to act like a wholly-owned subsidiary of the corrupt Trump cartel. That may be the House Republican position, but damn sure it ain’t the House Democratic position, because we know, and what we say to the American people, is that we don’t work for Donald Trump. We don’t work for JD Vance. We don’t work for your billionaire donors. We work for the American people. And that’s what this fight by House Democrats, joined by our colleagues on the other side of the Capitol, has been all about. We work for the American people.
As we stand on the Capitol steps, ready to continue this battle on the House Floor, a battle that we waged week after week after week and that will continue regardless of the outcome, we say to the American people that we know you deserve better. You deserve much better than the chaos, the cruelty and the corruption that you’ve seen. And so as House Democrats, we’re going to continue this fight to lower the high cost of living in a country where America is far too expensive. Far too many people struggling to live paycheck to paycheck, can’t thrive and can barely survive. That should not be the case in the United States of America, the wealthiest country in the history of the world. And so as Democrats, we’re committed to addressing this affordability crisis. That’s what this fight has been all about. And we’ll continue to work hard to lower the high cost of living. We’ll continue the fight to fix our broken healthcare system. And we’ll continue the fight to stand up for Medicaid. We’ll continue the fight to stand up for Medicare. We’ll continue the fight to stand up for the Affordable Care Act and an extension of the tax credits. We’ll continue the fight for your hospitals. We’ll continue the fight for your nursing homes. We’ll continue the fight for your community-based health clinics. And we’ll continue the fight for the principle that in this great country, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, healthcare can’t simply be a privilege available only to the wealthy, the well-off and the well-connected. Healthcare must be a right available to every single American. And that’s the fight that House Democrats will continue to wage for the American people.
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I want to thank all of our distinguished colleagues who spoke so powerfully and eloquently about the nature of this fight that we continue to wage on behalf of the American people. And these are first-term Members of Congress, but they recognize that as Democrats, we stand on the shoulders of many who, decade after decade, century into century, have always fought to make life better for everyday Americans and to protect the healthcare and enhance the healthcare of the American people. That’s the continuing and enduring legacy of the Democratic Party. FDR fought for it. Truman fought for it. JFK fought for it. LBJ fought for it. Carter fought for it. Clinton fought for it. Barack Obama fought for it. Biden fought for it. And no one fought harder in the House of Representatives than our Speaker Emerita Nancy D’Alesandro Pelosi. That’s in the DNA of the Democratic Party, from FDR to Nancy Pelosi to these first-term Members. And so our promise to the American people is that we are in this fight until we win this fight for all of you. Cancel the cuts, lower the costs, save healthcare. God bless you. God bless the United States of America.
Source: United States House of Representatives – Congresswoman Haley Stevens (MI-11)
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, in honor of Veterans Day, Michigan Congresswoman Haley Stevens recognized the service and sacrifice of Michigan’s veterans:
“Today, we honor the men and women who have worn our nation’s uniform and defended our freedoms with courage and sacrifice, including the more than 440,000 veterans who call Michigan home.
“I’m proud to stand with those who’ve served by fighting for real results: expanding care through the PACT Act and helping veterans live safely at home through my Home Accessibility Tax Credit Act. I am also proud torecognizethe legacy of Major General Oliver W. Dillard – the first Black officer to graduate from the National War College – by renaming the Canton, MI V.A. Outpatient Clinic in his memory.
“I’ll never stop fighting to make sure our veterans get the care, dignity, and opportunity they’ve earned.”
Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA)
WASHINGTON, D.C. —Congressman Brad Sherman (CA-32) issued the following statement on the Senate’s vote to end the government shutdown:
“This is a bad deal. I will be voting no. It will cause the healthcare premiums of 22 million people to double or even triple. A promise to hold a vote on healthcare premiums in the Senate is irrelevant, since Speaker Mike Johnson won’t allow a vote in the House.”
Shortly following the Senate’s vote, Congressman Sherman joinedSpectrum Newswhere he discussed his position in greater detail. Watch the full interviewhere.