Rep. Peters will continue to push for good faith negotiations on our federal appropriations.
Continue pushing for good-faith negotiations on federal appropriations.
Occurrences
Congress cannot keep pouring billions more into agencies whose tactics have sown fear in communities.
Evidence
Rep. Peters said DHS had been shut down since February 13 and concluded that he would continue to push for good-faith negotiations on federal appropriations while Congress worked through the DHS funding lapse.
Peters and Horsford introduced the Homeland Security Continuity and Accountability Act to keep essential DHS functions operating during a shutdown while Congress negotiates guardrails for immigration enforcement.
Although not an appropriations bill, the release shows Peters still active on federal policy negotiations in April, co-leading a bipartisan package and emphasizing accountability and on-time action by federal agencies.
“Peters will continue to push for good faith negotiations on our federal appropriations.” The statement was issued while discussing the DHS shutdown and the need to fund essential services.
Peters said he voted for the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2026 and that shutting down the government was not a strategy; he described his bill as a way to rein in ICE while negotiations continued.
The FY2026 appropriations status table notes that H.R. 7148 became P.L. 119-75 and that continuing appropriations for Homeland Security ran through 2/13/2026 in Division H.
The press release says Peters "will continue to push for good faith negotiations on our federal appropriations" during the DHS shutdown fight.
Peters and Horsford introduced the Homeland Security Continuity and Accountability Act to keep DHS functions operating while Congress negotiated shutdown-related funding terms.
Assessments
The promise was to keep pushing for good-faith negotiations on federal appropriations, not necessarily to personally secure the final appropriations outcome. The evidence shows Peters publicly reaffirmed in the same term that he would continue pressing for such negotiations during the DHS funding fight, voted on appropriations-related legislation, and introduced a bill tied to maintaining DHS operations while negotiations continued. For a sitting U.S. Representative, those statements and legislative actions are sufficient to count this process-oriented promise as fulfilled in the same term.
Official April 2026 statements show Peters explicitly saying he would continue to push for good-faith negotiations on federal appropriations, and he backed that up with related legislative action during the FY2026 funding fight. That is direct same-term fulfillment of the claim, not merely a later-term outcome.
The promise is process-oriented rather than outcome-specific: to continue pushing for good-faith negotiations on federal appropriations. The evidence directly shows Peters doing that during the same term. His official statements on February 3 and April 1, 2026 explicitly say he voted to keep the government open and would continue negotiations on ICE funding and broader federal appropriations. Additional evidence shows he introduced related legislation during the DHS funding lapse, reinforcing that he remained actively engaged in the appropriations dispute rather than abandoning the effort. Because the promise was to keep pushing, and the record shows he in fact continued that advocacy and legislative activity, this is best scored as delivered in the same term.
The promise was process-oriented: to continue pushing for good-faith negotiations on federal appropriations, not necessarily to enact a final appropriations package. The evidence shows Peters made same-term public and legislative efforts directly tied to the DHS funding lapse and appropriations negotiations, including an April 1, 2026 statement committing to continued negotiations and a March 6, 2026 bill addressing essential DHS operations during the shutdown while negotiations proceeded. That satisfies the promised action within his federal office context.