How your lawmakers voted on shutting down the government

The federal government shut down for the first time since October 2013 as President Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress failed to pass legislation funding federal agencies.

They had passed temporary spending bills since the new fiscal year began Oct. 1, but Democrats demanded any legislation also include a provision to protect the 690,000 unauthorized immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and now faced deportation because Trump revoked an executive order allowing them to stay.

They are known as dreamers after the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act that would have allowed those brought to the U.S. as children to remain in the country legally if they attended college or joined the military. Senate Republicans blocked that legislation.

Republicans refused and instead offered yet another temporary spending plan to fund the government through Feb. 16. Most Democrats said no.

Senate Democrats had leverage because 60 votes are needed to pass a spending bill and Republicans controlled only 51 seats. But the GOP couldn't even get all of its own members on board.

As they did with their failed attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act and their successful tax legislation, Trump and congressional Republican leaders refused to make any concessions to attract Democratic support and instead gave the minority party two choices: Take it or leave it.

The Democrats left it.

Here's how the New Jersey delegation voted on the spending bill.

(A yes vote was to prevent a government shutdown.)

“Our Republican colleagues were busy in October, November, and December not preparing for the government’s needs, but to have a drive in ecstasy for tax cuts for the wealthiest people in the country and large corporations on the backs of middle class and working families," Menendez said. "Then they come and say, 'It's urgent that we do this now.' You had months in which you did nothing."