Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old San Antonio mother, died of preeclampsia at 20 weeks pregnant after asking doctors about ending her pregnancy. Her family's wrongful-death lawsuit names Ken Paxton, saying his enforcement of Texas's abortion ban scared doctors into doing nothing.
On September 16 the House passed the PROOF Act, 217-207. It orders states to turn over whatever Medicaid, SNAP and other benefit records Attorney General Todd Blanche asks for in writing, with no judge involved. A federal court had already blocked the Trump administration from cutting food stamp funding to states that refused to hand over recipient data. 185 of the members who voted yes have report cards on this site.
Two weeks after promising to work 'every day that's on the calendar,' the Speaker canceled the last two weeks of September — then cut the final Thursday too, the day a vote on impeaching Pete Hegseth could have been forced. An Epstein files petition was left short of the 218 signatures it needs. The House has held a recorded vote on 72 of the year's 259 days, and has enacted 110 laws this Congress.
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Tommy Tuberville is running for governor of Alabama, and he went on national TV to demand that Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, a U.S. citizen for over 26 years, be deported.
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This summer, tainted lettuce infected nearly 13,000 Americans, put 570 in the hospital and killed two.
Two weeks after Liberation Day, Sen. Katie Britt's office quietly asked for tariff help for Airbus, Novelis, Kronospan and TNT Fireworks. Then she voted four times to keep the tariffs on everyone else.
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Susan Collins has spent years telling voters she is a defender of abortion rights, but when it matters most, she keeps selling women out.
Scott Perry cosponsored a national abortion ban five times, then told voters he doesn't support one. Rob Bresnahan swore off a federal abortion ban and voted for a federal abortion bill three months later. Darren Bailey, Stacy Garrity, Kelly Ayotte and Joe Lombardo all ran on ending or restricting abortion — and discovered moderation the year they needed votes.
In a few days: DHS's own watchdog reported men sleeping on floors and cots in an overcrowded ICE jail, school bus cameras appeared to show an arrest DHS denied, ICE began quietly firing recruits it rushed onto the street, and a federal judge ruled ICE likely broke the First Amendment.
