The Senate passed a continuing resolution to prevent a government shutdown.
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Badlands MediaAug 11, 2026
The Senate passed a continuing resolution on August 8, 2026, by a 90-6 vote, to keep the government funded through December 11 and avert a shutdown before the midterms. The House later passed the Senate version on September 1, but the claim only concerns the Senate's passage.
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… Yes, we were able to go ahead and approve a new tranche of Trump appointees. So we're we got 95% of all of his appointees that are ready, they are now done. That is good news for President Trump and the administration. We also got a CR through, so that we will not have another government shutdown, and that was a big win. Senator Susan Collins, who chairs the Committee Probes Committee, did a good job of that. We got no get out of here. We're not, Brad. We're not. We are we are not praising Susan Collins on this show. We're not gonna we're not gonna allow that to take place. …
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Supports. The Hill reports the Senate voted early on Saturday to fund the federal government until Dec. 11 to avert another shutdown before the midterms, passing the CR 90-6.[3]
Supports. The Senate Floor Activity record for August 7, 2026 shows H.R. 6500, the continuing appropriations act for fiscal 2027, passed the Senate 90-6 by record vote.[2]
Supports. The Conference Board and NACO both report that the Senate passed a CR at FY 2026 funding levels through December 11, with the House later passing its own version.[4][5]
Context. The Snopes item about a November 2025 funding bill concerns a different CR and does not bear on the August 2026 passage. The post's 'Susan Collins' framing and its 'they all stay funded' wording are consistent with the sourced vote.[1]
Sources
5 sources: 1 fact-checker, 1 primary, 1 tier 1, 2 not rated
- 1Did Republican senators amend funding bill to allow them to sue government over Jan. 6 investigations?snopes.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2Senate Floor Activity - Friday, August 7, 2026senate.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 3Senate passes stopgap funding bill to prevent shutdown ...thehill.com · tier 1 · cited for: supports
- 4Congress Moves Closer to Avoiding Government Shutdownconference-board.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5Congress passes short-term funding bill, keeping the ...naco.org · not rated · cited for: supports
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