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PartialFederal spending

Fix the broken congressional appropriations process and get federal spending under control.

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PartialFact-checker reviewConfidence: 65%

All four cited sources are reachable and support the PARTIAL rating. (1) Senate Roll Call 411 confirms Ricketts voted Yea on H.R.4 (Rescissions Act), passed 51-48 on July 17, 2025 — a single vote codifying ~$8.9B in cuts, not authorship or leadership. (2) Ricketts's Senate press release is genuine and contains the quoted language verbatim ("stops the government from relying on short-term fixes and starts focusing on real results"; "keep fighting to pass the remaining budget through the regular appropriations process") — evidence of a vote plus regular-order rhetoric, not a sponsored process-reform bill. (3) Nebraska Public Media confirms the broken process persisted: a multi-week shutdown, repeated stopgap CRs, funding pushed to Nov. 21 at previous levels — the process was NOT fixed. (4) American Action Forum confirms the CBO $8.9B outlay reduction and the program list, establishing the limited magnitude of the spending action. This correctly rules out CHAMPIONED (no sponsored/authored/led legislation; not on the Appropriations Committee — only votes and rhetoric) and FULL (neither systemic goal achieved). It is more than ATTEMPTED because concrete results were produced (rescissions signed into law; an appropriations minibus advancing regular order). Genuine partial action on both prongs without achieving either overarching goal is PARTIAL. Confidence is moderate given the broad, systemic nature of the promise (no single senator can single-handedly deliver it), but the record of Ricketts's own verified actions is clear, so UNRATABLE is not warranted.

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