DOGE's charter expired on July 4, 2026. It promised $2 trillion in savings, delivered chaos and a claimed $215 billion, and its co-founder Vivek Ramaswamy bailed early — to run for Governor of Ohio.
Zach Nunn introduced a resolution to block Medicaid and SNAP cuts — then voted for the biggest cuts in history three weeks later. A year on, clinics in his district are closing and 25,000 Iowans have lost food help.
A year after Mariannette Miller-Meeks — a doctor — voted for Trump's budget bill, nearly 25,000 Iowans have lost food assistance, her district's hospital ended labor and delivery services, and she told booing constituents the bill 'strengthened' Medicaid.
Trump came to the Macungie Mack Trucks plant to campaign for Ryan Mackenzie — the same plant that announced layoffs because of Trump's tariffs. Mackenzie praised him anyway.
A year after Tom Tiffany voted for Trump's budget bill, protesters brought a dead ambulance to GOP headquarters — because 270,000 Wisconsinites stand to lose healthcare and hundreds of thousands could lose food help.
The Supreme Court said states MAY ban transgender kids from girls' sports — not that they must. Tiffany immediately promised Wisconsin would, if he becomes governor.
Luna had a real chance to get answers about a real CIA abuse. Instead, her hearing wandered into USAID, COVID, and Fauci conspiracy theories — and experts say it broke no new ground.
The House passed the biggest housing affordability bill in decades, 358 to 32. Six Florida Republicans voted no — not because of housing, but to back Trump's demand for a voter suppression law.
He gave DOGE political cover from his oversight seat, got an earful from unhappy constituents at his own town halls, and has spent his career trying to control women's bodies.