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The Clean Budget Coalition is an alliance of hundreds of groups committed to removing poison pill policy riders from the annual spending bills. Learn more at cleanbudget.org.

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Clean Budget Coalition @cleanbudget.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
UPDATE: House Republicans have added more than 280 new poison pills to their draft spending bills. None of these toxic measures could become law on their own merits, and none of them have anything to do with funding our government. Congress must remove all the poison pills from any final package.
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Clean Budget Coalition @cleanbudget.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
People across the country are struggling to afford housing, health care, education, groceries, and everyday expenses. House Republicans have added poison pills to their draft FY 27 spending bills that would drive up costs, making the affordability crisis even worse. cleanbudget.org/fy-27-poison...
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FY 27 Poison Pills Added by House Republicans Would Drive Up Costs - Clean Budget Coalition
WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Republicans have added more than 275 poison pills to their draft FY27 spending bills, according to the Clean Budget Coalition. Many of these poison pills would drive up costs ...
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Clean Budget Coalition @cleanbudget.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
UPDATE: House Republicans have added nearly 200 new poison pills to their draft FY 27 spending bills. We expect to see dozens of additional poison pills in the bills that have yet to be released. Congress must remove all of these toxic, harmful, and unpopular measures from any final package.
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Clean Budget Coalition @cleanbudget.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
NEW: To protect the power of the purse, appropriators must ensure that the Trump administration complies with fiscal guardrails, dozens of groups told Congress. More at the link: cleanbudget.org/appropriator...
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Appropriators Must Ensure Trump Complies with Fiscal Guardrails, Dozens of Groups Tell Congress - Clean Budget Coalition
Dear Members of Congress: With the President’s budget request released and Congress fully turning its attention to the Fiscal Year 2027 government funding process, the oversight responsibility of the ...
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Clean Budget Coalition @cleanbudget.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
NEW: The Clean Budget Coalition has reviewed the six FY 27 spending bills that have been released so far. House Republicans have already added more than 125 new poison pills to these bills. Congress must remove all of these toxic, harmful, and unpopular measures from any final package.
Graph showing counts of legacy riders and new poison pills in the FY 27 spending bills drafted by House Republicans.
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Schumer says attaching SAVE Act to approps deal=shutdown "It is a poison pill that will kill any legislation that it is attached to. If House Republicans add the SAVE Act to the bipartisan appropriations package it will lead to another prolonged Trump government shutdown"
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Clean Budget Coalition @cleanbudget.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
NEW: Clean Budget Coalition leaders praise clean funding bills, warn against poison pills... The bipartisan spending packages introduced this month removed hundreds of harmful riders. But most of the legacy riders – poison pills added in past budget cycles – remain. cleanbudget.org/coalition-le...
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Coalition Leaders Praise Clean Funding Bills, Warn Against Poison Pills - Clean Budget Coalition
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Leaders of the Clean Budget Coalition today praised House and Senate appropriators for relatively clean funding bills, and warned against poison pill policy riders that are still in...
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The Lever @levernews.com · 12/11/2025
After lobbyists spent big on the Trump administration and Democratic defectors, the government funding bill cut food-contamination rules and limited ultraprocessed-food research. www.levernews.com/shutdown-dea...
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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.
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Politico @politico.com · 11/11/2025
John Thune secures provision in government funding bill letting senators sue for phone records seizure
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John Thune secures provision in government funding bill letting senators sue for phone records seizure
The new legislative language is an escalation of the GOP’s efforts to discredit former special counsel Jack Smith.
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Shutdown Report @shutdownreport.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
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!! youtube.com/live/3OZn3iR...
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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.
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Clean Budget Coalition @cleanbudget.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGaI...
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Healthcare Over Billionaires Rally
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Clean Budget Coalition @cleanbudget.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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.
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Clean Budget Coalition @cleanbudget.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
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. www.politico.com/live-updates...
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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.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 26/09/2025
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...
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.”
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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.
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Clean Budget Coalition @cleanbudget.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
With five days to a shutdown, the Trump White House is threatening to fire more federal workers. This is the correct response.
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Clean Budget Coalition @cleanbudget.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
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.
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Clean Budget Coalition @cleanbudget.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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.
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Clean Budget Coalition @cleanbudget.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Just 8 days until a government shutdown. Republicans need to come to the negotiating table ASAP.
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Clean Budget Coalition @cleanbudget.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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!
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Clean Budget Coalition @cleanbudget.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
With 11 days to go until a shutdown, both chambers of Congress are expected to vote today on stopgap funding bills. www.politico.com/live-updates...
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Capitol agenda: CRs hit the floor
Lawmakers are expected to vote Friday on competing continuing resolutions as a shutdown deadline approaches.
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Clean Budget Coalition @cleanbudget.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
With 12 days to go until a government shutdown, a bipartisan CR is the only way forward.
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Clean Budget Coalition @cleanbudget.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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.
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Clean Budget Coalition @cleanbudget.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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. www.politico.com/live-updates...
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Trump to GOP: Vote yes on the ‘clean’ CR
The president is pressuring Republicans to back GOP leaders' short-term stopgap funding plan.
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Clean Budget Coalition @cleanbudget.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
It's 15 days to a government shutdown. Congress must pass clean funding legislation free from any poison pill policy riders.
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Clean Budget Coalition @cleanbudget.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
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. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...
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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...
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Clean Budget Coalition @cleanbudget.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
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: cleanbudget.org
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Clean Budget Coalition @cleanbudget.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
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.
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Clean Budget Coalition @cleanbudget.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
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! cleanbudget.org/more-than-22...
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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....
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Clean Budget Coalition @cleanbudget.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/06/2025
DeLauro uses her opening statement to tear Russ Vought a new one
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Rosa DeLauro @delauro.house.gov · 04/06/2025
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
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Budget Hearing – Office of Management and Budget
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Clean Budget Coalition @cleanbudget.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
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.
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Clean Budget Coalition @cleanbudget.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
More than 160 groups oppose the House GOP's partisan, slush fund CR. The government shuts down on Friday at midnight.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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."
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Clean Budget Coalition @cleanbudget.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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.
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Clean Budget Coalition @cleanbudget.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Today Republicans will try to jam their CR through the House. Their bill is a blank check for Trump and Musk with painful cuts that will raise costs for everyone. There is an alternative: A short-term patch to avoid a shutdown so Congress can finish work on serious, bipartisan funding bills.
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House Appropriations Democrats @democrats-appropriations.house.gov · 11/03/2025
Ranking Member @delauro.house.gov and Senator @murray.senate.gov just introduced a short-term CR: "There is a very clear alternative to House Republicans’ plan: immediately passing a short-term patch to prevent a senseless shutdown and finishing work on serious, bipartisan funding bills..."
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Top Democratic appropriators DeLauro and Murray just introduced a CR through April 11. This (1) serves as an alternative to the House GOP six-month bill they oppose, (2) reflects their ongoing pursuit of a full approps deal for this fiscal year. democrats-appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
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Clean Budget Coalition @cleanbudget.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
If there's a shutdown at the end of this week, it will be because Republicans walked away from the negotiating table and tried to go it alone.
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House Appropriations Democrats @democrats-appropriations.house.gov · 08/03/2025
Ranking Member @delauro.house.gov on Republicans' full-year continuing resolution: "I strongly oppose this full-year continuing resolution, which is a power grab for the White House and further allows unchecked billionaire Elon Musk and President Trump to steal from the American people."
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 08/03/2025
Speaker Johnson has rolled out a slush fund continuing resolution that would give Donald Trump and Elon Musk more power over federal spending—and more power to pick winners and losers, which threatens families in blue and red states alike. Read my full statement ⬇️
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Clean Budget Coalition @cleanbudget.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
House Republicans added a poison pill rider to their draft spending bills that would block the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives from issuing new regulations of any kind. All the poison pill riders must be removed.
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Clean Budget Coalition @cleanbudget.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Laws and appropriations passed by Congress are not optional, but Republicans are insisting on treating them that way. That's why there could be a government shutdown at the end of next week.
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Clean Budget Coalition @cleanbudget.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
House Republicans added poison pill to their draft Agriculture spending bill that would stop the FDA from tracing the origin and prevalence of contaminated food. They added HUNDREDS of poison pills like this. All of them must be removed from any final spending package.
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Clean Budget Coalition @cleanbudget.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Trump, Musk, and Vought are risking a government shutdown by treating congressional appropriations as optional. House Republicans are adding to that risk by insisting on including hundreds of poison pills that have nothing to do with funding our government.
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Clean Budget Coalition @cleanbudget.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Republicans could have finished the spending bills in December, but they deliberately chose not to. Now they're choosing a shutdown instead of standing up to Trump's rampant lawbreaking.
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Clean Budget Coalition @cleanbudget.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
House Republicans are pro-listeria. They added a rider to the Agriculture spending bill that would impede the FDA from issuing a new rule or guidance to prevent listeria from contaminating our food. Congress must remove all the poison pills from any final spending package.
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Clean Budget Coalition @cleanbudget.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Republicans control the White House and both chambers of Congress. They walked away from the negotiating table and don't want to have to follow the law. They packed their draft spending bills with hundreds of awful poison pills. If there's a government shutdown in 10 days, it's their fault.
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