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The U.S. government shut down from Oct. 1 to Nov. 12 after Congress could not agree on a federal budget for fiscal year 2026. The two parties came to a head over healthcare as Republicans proposed a budget that would cause millions of low-income Americans to lose their health insurance. Here are the facts you need to know.
H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), was passed into law by Congress on July 4, 2025. This major spending act will add $3.4 trillion to the federal deficit over the next decade. OBBBA will fund tax cuts while making cuts to essential programs like Medicaid, a joint federal-state health insurance program administered by the states and relied on by millions of disabled and low-income Americans.
Texas lawmakers have approved a redistricting plan designed to give Republicans up to five more seats in Congress ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, a process known as gerrymandering. Other states have launched retaliatory plans to offset Texas by giving more seats to Democrats, namely California’s Proposition 50, sparking what lawmakers have called a “national war” over redistricting.
President Joe Biden signed a bill in April 2024 that could result in a nationwide ban of the popular video-based social media platform TikTok if its parent company, ByteDance, does not sell its stake in the app.
On October 25, Congressman Mike Johnson of Louisiana was elected Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Eight different Republicans ran for this position. The House of Representatives was leaderless for 22 days after Kevin McCarthy was ousted on October 3. McCarthy made history as the only Speaker of the House to ever be ousted, forced by a group of hard-right Republicans, signaling a divide in the House Majority Republican party.