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ChampionedGovernment funding and shutdowns

Pledged to keep pushing his Prevent Government Shutdowns Act, which would permanently end government shutdowns by forcing Congress to stay in Washington and triggering automatic rolling 14-day continuing resolutions until appropriations bills are finished.

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ChampionedFact-checker reviewConfidence: 93%

Adversarial re-check confirms the prior rating and finds the evidence is if anything stronger than originally documented. Every cited source was independently re-fetched and is real, live, and on-point (the one congress.gov URL returned HTTP 403 to automated fetch, i.e. bot-blocking, so it was replaced with the equivalent GovInfo bill-status record, which confirms the same bill). Verified record after the 2024 pledge: (1) Lankford is the lead SPONSOR, not a supporting vote — he reintroduced the Prevent Government Shutdowns Act of 2025 as S.2721 on September 4, 2025 (14 cosponsors, referred to Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs), paired with a House companion push with Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington; (2) he reintroduced it again as the Prevent Government Shutdowns Act of 2026, S.4632, on May 21, 2026 with Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and 23 cosponsors spanning both parties, and GovInfo bill status shows it was read the second time and placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders, Calendar No. 424, on June 1, 2026 — real floor-track progress, not a messaging filing; (3) he is still actively driving it as of the verification date, testifying before the House Appropriations Committee on July 22, 2026 at its first shutdown-reform oversight hearing since 2008. The bill text matches the promise precisely: automatic rolling 14-day continuing resolutions when appropriations lapse, plus requirements that Members stay in Washington with bans on taxpayer-funded official travel and limits on unrelated business. Outcome-tier check: it has NOT been enacted into law, so FULL is wrong; and the conduct is far beyond a single supporting vote or a failed attempt, so ATTEMPTED understates it. CHAMPIONED (+0.75) is the correct tier for sustained, documented leadership on an effort that has not yet landed. Nonpartisan same-standard test: a Democratic senator with this identical record — lead sponsor, two reintroductions after the pledge, a bipartisan 23-member coalition, placement on the legislative calendar, and congressional testimony advocating the bill — would receive CHAMPIONED under this rubric. No partisan leniency or harshness detected; confidence raised marginally from 0.90 to 0.93 on the strength of the additional verified July 2026 hearing evidence.

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