The funding package, ending the longest government shutdown in modern U.S. history, received support from a half-dozen Democrats — mostly moderates representing competitive districts — when it passed the House late Wednesday.
The bill, which President Trump signed Wednesday, will keep the government open until January 30. It also cancels federal furloughs during the shutdown and includes three-year funding bills that cover military construction and the Department of Veterans Affairs; Department of Agriculture and FDA; and the activities of the legislative branch.
It passed the Senate earlier this week after negotiations between Republicans and eight members of the House Democratic Caucuswho voted for the bill in exchange for a GOP promise to hold a separate vote to extend expiring health insurance tax breaks.
Here's a look at the House Democrats who voted yes:
Jared Golden from Maine
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Rep. Jared Golden of Maine, a moderate politician who represents largely rural northern New England, was the only House Democrat to vote for the GOP-backed measure. in September this would prevent a government shutdown. When the shutdown began last month, he blamed for this about the “hard politics” of “extreme left groups.”
IN post on social networks after Wednesday's vote, he said he “voted to reopen the government, pay federal workers, and reopen food assistance and other important programs.”
He also called on lawmakers to “take immediate action” to extend health insurance subsidies that are set to expire at the end of this year.
“We still have the opportunity to pass bipartisan legislation to extend these loans,” he said.
Golden won re-election last year by 0.6 percentage points, or just under 3,000 votes. That year, Mr. Trump won Golden County by about 9 points. Last week he said he would do not stand for re-election The following year, he attributed the move in part to “unnecessary and harmful” business closures.
Marie Glusenkamp Perez from Washington
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Rep. Marie Glusenkamp Perez of Washington, who is known for occasionally breaking ties with her party, said in a statement. statement she “voted to end this partisan shutdown car crash.”
“Americans cannot allow their representatives to become so caught up in achieving partisan victories that they abandon their commitment to coming together to solve the urgent problems facing our nation,” she wrote. “The last few weeks have been an example of why most Americans can't stand Congress. None of my friends who rely on SNAP would want to trade their dinner for an ambiguous 'messaging victory' on the D.C. Beltway, and I'm glad that terrible scene is in the rearview mirror.”
She won re-election by 3.8 points last year after being elected to Congress in 2022 by 0.8 points.
Henry Cuellar from Texas
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Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas, who represented the Rio Grande Valley for more than 20 years, said in a statement. statement that “Washington's inaction has created unnecessary hardships on the communities I represent,” pointing to food aid disruptions. He asked Congress to extend health insurance tax breaks.
“The problem is that when Democrats or Republicans think they are winning at the end of a long shutdown, the American public loses,” Cuellar said. NewsNation after voting.
Last year he won re-election by 5.6 points.
Adam Gray from California
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Rep. Adam Gray of California explained his vote in Turlock Journal articlenewspaper in his Central Valley congressional district. He said he voted yes because the bill would maintain funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program through the end of September, which would prevent further disruptions to food assistance if another shutdown occurs.
“No parent should have to choose between feeding their children and keeping the lights on because someone in Washington thinks chaos is a negotiating tactic,” he wrote, accusing the Trump administration of “using vulnerable Americans as political leverage.”
He later said: “Is this a perfect deal? No. But lasting politics in this country is not born from hostage-taking. It is born out of compromise.”
He pushed to extend health insurance tax credits, but wrote: “Protecting families from hunger today will not prevent us from lowering health care costs tomorrow.”
Gray won his first term in Congress by just 187 votes in 2024, after losing by a razor-thin margin of 564 votes two years earlier.
Don Davis from North Carolina
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Rep. Don Davis of North Carolina, whose already competitive district was redrawn this year and did more favorable to Republicanssaid that “a growing number of families are telling me they are suffering on a daily basis” during the lockdown.
He said in statement he voted for a bill to “relieve suffering” and hopes negotiations can be held to extend health insurance subsidies.
“While some Washington politicians from both parties have failed rural communities, the battle over health care is not over,” Davis wrote.
Davis won re-election last year by 1.7 points.
Tom Suozzi from New York
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Representative Tom Suozzi of New York said in X after the House vote, he is “relying on statements from some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they want to do something to extend the premium tax break.”
But he added that “we cannot rely on a White House that has decided to make this process unnecessarily painful,” noting the food aid disruptions.
Suozzi won re-election in November by 3.6 points. He previously represented his Long Island district for three terms and left Congress in 2023 to run for governorand returned to the House of Representatives in a special election in early 2024 to replace expelled GOP Rep. George Santos.











