“Committed to passing legislation to withhold pay from members of Congress who fail to pass a balanced budget.”
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Promise (2023-12-05 campaign pledge; Sheehy took office Jan 3, 2025): commit to passing legislation to withhold congressional pay for failure to pass a balanced budget ("no balanced budget, no paycheck"). Verified: On 06/26/2025 Sheehy became a later-added cosponsor of S.88, the "No Budget, No Pay Act" (119th Congress), sponsored by Rick Scott (R-FL). This is a real, verifiable legislative step aligned with the spirit of the promise, but it falls short in three ways confirmed against the sources: (1) Not leadership — Sheehy is one of the later cosponsors (bill had 7 original cosponsors), and the champion is Rick Scott, so NOT CHAMPIONED. (2) The bill does NOT require a BALANCED budget — GovInfo bill text confirms it only requires Congress to approve a concurrent budget resolution and pass regular appropriations before Members can be paid after October 1, a weaker mechanism than the balanced-budget trigger he pledged. (3) It did not pass — Rick Scott's Nov 6, 2025 unanimous-consent request to pass S.88 was blocked by Senate Democrats; the bill remains unenacted. Because he did part of what he promised (cosponsored withhold-pay legislation) but neither led it, matched the balanced-budget specificity, nor achieved passage, PARTIAL is correct and does not overstate the evidence. Moderate confidence given the PARTIAL/ATTEMPTED boundary, but the concrete cosponsorship action supports crediting a partial step rather than a mere attempt.
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