The Republican-controlled US Senate voted Thursday to scrap a Biden-era policy that protected millions of acres in the Alaskan Arctic from fossil fuel drilling, even as the government shutdown continued with no end in sight.

The final vote on the resolution , led by Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), was 52-45 , almost entirely along party lines. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) was the only Democrat to join Republicans in voting for the measure, which aims to use the Congressional Review Act to revoke a 2022 Biden administration decision protecting swaths of the Western Arctic.

The resolution still must pass the House, which is also controlled by Republicans.

Athan Manuel, director of the Sierra Club’s Lands Protection Program, said the vote shows that President Donald Trump and

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