How N.J.’s congressional delegation voted in January

Click here for a web version of the New Jersey Globe’s January 2026 vote tracker, with links to the bills and votes in question, or scroll to the bottom of this article for a PDF version.

For New Jersey’s members of Congress, January 2026 was all about government funding – and, for Democrats, about how far they were willing to go to fight President Donald Trump and his administration’s funding priorities.

Breaking with some recent hyper-partisan appropriations processes, Democrats and Republicans worked together on most funding bills ahead of the January 30 deadline; one bill, funding the Commerce, Justice, Energy, and Interior Departments, got unanimous support from New Jersey’s House delegation. But funding for the Department of Homeland Security, already a controversial topic, became even more challenging after the killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.

Every New Jersey Democrat voted against a DHS funding bill in the House, and when it came before the Senate as part of a larger package, Senators Cory Booker and Andy Kim helped to block it. Democratic leaders then struck a deal to shorten the DHS funding in the bill to just two weeks, allowing for more time to reach a compromise, but Booker and Kim still voted against the amended bill, which is set to go before the House today. (In the meantime, the government is partially shut down.)

A few other votes of note:

• After Democrats successfully forced a vote on a bill extending Affordable Care Act subsidies that expired at the end of last year, Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-Westfield) was one of 17 Republicans to support it. The bipartisan vote, however, wasn’t enough to trigger any kind of deal in the more intransigent Senate, and the subsidies remain dead for now.

• Reps. Jeff Van Drew (R-Dennis) and Chris Smith (R-Manchester) were among the six Republicans who voted down a GOP-led bill to limit worker pay for volunteer training programs, citing opposition from organized labor groups; the vote showed just how tenuous the Republican majority is, and caused GOP leaders to scuttle two other planned votes on labor-related bills.

• In the wake of the U.S. attack on Venezuela and capture of President Nicolás Maduro, both the Senate and the House took up Democratic-led resolutions to rein in the Trump administration – and both failed on incredibly narrow votes. The New Jersey delegation voted along party lines: all Democrats supported the resolutions to reassert congressional authority, all Republicans opposed them.