Not one Republican in Congress voted for the American Rescue Plan. Then they put out press releases bragging about the money it sent home. Malliotakis, Van Duyne, and Balderson all did it — and later voted against refilling the fund they told restaurants to apply for.
H.R. 899 is one sentence long. But abolishing the Department of Education is only the loud part of the plan — the quiet part is a new, uncapped federal tax credit that drains public school money into private and religious schools.
New Hampshire just won $29.5 million from Purdue Pharma, and Governor Kelly Ayotte thanked the lawyers who got it. In 2007, when she was the state's attorney general, she kept New Hampshire out of the case against Purdue — then took more drug-industry money in the Senate than any other Granite State politician.
Bodycam video shows Nevada's governor interrupt a police sergeant to say his own name, complain 'Come on, man,' and drive away with no citation. The whole stop took about 15 seconds. His campaign says he wasn't asking for special treatment.
The Supreme Court threw out Trump's emergency tariffs and the government owes importers up to $166 billion in refunds. Amazon, Apple, Ford and Nike are collecting. The families who actually paid at the register get nothing.
Trump called Jan. 6 defendants 'great American Patriots' and defended the nearly $1.8 billion 'anti-weaponization' fund he negotiated with his own administration — a deal that also hands him and his sons immunity from tax audits tied to their leaked tax records.
Collins voted to confirm Kavanaugh in 2018 on the assurance that Roe was 'settled law.' He voted to overturn it. Asked in Maine this summer whether she'd do it again, she said yes.
Fong is urging the Trump administration to kill California's MCO tax, warning it will cost families $400 a year. The reason the tax now hits private plans is a rule inside H.R. 1 — the bill Fong voted for on July 3, 2025.
In July 2021, as Missouri led the nation in COVID cases, Jason Smith told his constituents Biden wanted to knock down their doors to force vaccines on them. Weeks later he admitted he'd taken the vaccine himself and that it works.