House votes Sept. 1 on a stopgap that funds the government to Dec. 11, pushing the shutdown deadline past the midterms

What we’re less sure of4 of 9 claims

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  Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.) said, "The big bills will probably have to wait until after the election."

  A named-source quote, but unlike the Moore quote it is not traceable to a specific listed source page — the Politico and Washington Post live coverage are the likely origin, and neither is cited for it specifically.

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  The stopgap drops the administration's request for $1 billion in early work on a proposed "Trump-class" battleship and bars transfers into Border Patrol accounts.

  Both are negotiated omissions rather than enacted text, so they rest mainly on the AP report on exceptions and the division summary; the $1 billion figure is a request amount that the bill text would not state, making it the least directly verifiable item in the list.

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  In 19 of 25 completed election cycles since 1976, Congress moved a funding deadline across November, and only two produced a shutdown of a full day or longer — 11 days in 1979 and three days in December 1982.

  The two shutdowns are confirmed by the House Historian's official funding-gap table and the CRS reports on CR enactment/expiration dates cover the underlying data, but the 19-of-25 tally is an aggregation performed by the research desk across those sources rather than a figure any one of them publis

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  Dec. 11 becomes the deadline for all 12 annual appropriations bills, while Medicare's physician-payment increase and the Export-Import Bank's authorization both expire Dec. 31, 20 days later.

  The CRFB deadline tracker and CBO publications support the Dec. 31 expirations, but tying all 12 bills to the single CR date is an inference from the stopgap's government-wide scope rather than an enumerated claim in the cited sources.