More than 27% of households in Valadao's Central Valley district get SNAP, against 17% nationally. He voted for the bill that cut it — which cleared the House 215 to 214 — and told HuffPost the drop in enrollment doesn't worry him.
A New Direction had no conflict of interest policy in 2023 or 2024 — the two years it paid Drazan's consulting firm $96,000. Her husband was the nonprofit's president. It went quiet four days before she announced she was running again.
Elon Musk's America PAC has authorized up to $120 million across eight states, and Maine is on the target list. Updated August 14: the Senate Leadership Fund has committed $42 million of its own — though FEC filings through August 4 show SLF had spent only about $1.2 million in the race.
Missouri voters buried two Republican ballot measures on Aug. 4 — one to hand a single congressional district veto power over citizen initiatives, one to swap the income tax for higher sales taxes. Four of the five Missouri Republican congressmen this site tracks backed the gerrymander that made the first one work.
Miller said he had 'absolutely nothing to hide' and asked for an ethics investigation into himself. The committee opened one the same day — into domestic violence and illegal drug use. Trump had already called to tell him things aren't looking good.
Unemployment hasn't moved. Grocery prices keep climbing. But SNAP enrollment has collapsed by 11% since Republicans passed their budget bill — and in Arizona, where all six Republicans voted yes, more than half the program was gone by April.
On Monday his campaign said the House Ethics report cleared him. On Wednesday he withdrew from his reelection campaign. The reason he gave was prayer. The reason his own party gave was that he was down in the polls and outraised nine to one.
In 2014 Barry Moore faced four felony counts for what he told a grand jury about carrying a threat from Alabama's House Speaker. A jury acquitted him. The Speaker went to prison. Moore turned the whole thing into a campaign ad.
On July 31, delta-8 became a felony in Texas — seven years after Abbott signed the law that made it legal. A month earlier, the head of the country's largest Anheuser-Busch distributor gave him $500,000.