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PartialImmigration / border security

Committed to finishing the border wall, securing the border, and ending illegal immigration.

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PartialFact-checker reviewConfidence: 78%

All three cited sources were WebFetched and verified. (1) The Senate roll call (Vote #372, 119th Cong., July 1, 2025) confirms H.R.1 "Bill Passed" and Sheehy (R-MT) voted Yea — verbatim match. (2) The Sheehy Senate press release contains the exact quoted statement ("From securing the border, to strengthening our military, to preventing the largest tax increase in history ... the One, Big, Beautiful Bill delivers huge wins for working-class families across the country and revives the American Dream"); the rating's ellipsis faithfully omits only "while implementing no tax on tips and overtime." (3) NBC Montana confirms Sheehy co-sponsored the Laken Riley Act and carries his quote framing it as "the first step towards specifically focusing on violent criminal activity relating to illegal immigration." PARTIAL is the correct outcome: Sheehy took affirmative, enacted action on all three prongs (Laken Riley Act co-sponsorship targeting illegal immigration; Yea vote on H.R.1 funding border/wall security), but the promise's ultimate endpoints — wall "finished" and illegal immigration "ended" — are funded/underway, not completed. CHAMPIONED is correctly avoided: Sheehy was a co-sponsor (not lead author) of Laken Riley and one of 50 votes on H.R.1, a supporting rather than leading role. The rationale's $46.5B figure is not directly in the fetched sources but is not load-bearing for PARTIAL; the verified fact that he voted for the border-funding bill sustains the reasoning without overstatement.

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