2Washington, DC – Representative Mikie Sherrill and nearly every member of New Jersey’s Democratic congressional delegation voted Tuesday against a stopgap spending bill that would have reopened the federal government, keeping the shutdown in place as partisan divisions deepened.

The Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2026 , failed to clear the House after Democrats opposed the Republican-authored measure, which would have funded the government through November 21 and extended several expiring federal programs.

Only New Jersey’s three Republican representatives — Thomas Kean Jr., Chris Smith, and Jeff Van Drew — voted in favor of the measure.

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Mikie Sherrill and all New Jersey House Democrats voted “no” on a bill to reopen the federal government

The bill woul

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