A federal judge ruled that the Department of Homeland Security acted arbitrarily and broke a post-Katrina law when it blocked FEMA from keeping its on-call disaster teams — about 40% of the agency's staff — as part of a plan to cut FEMA roughly in half.
While Homeland Security workers went without paychecks, Rep. Zach Nunn voted for the rule that set aside a Senate bill to reopen the department. Two days later he began a sponsored week touring Edinburgh Castle and Dublin with his wife. He's spent more on member travel than all but two House members.
Texas has 655 data centers operating, planned or under construction, and its counties can't require one to keep its distance from a house. A new Berkeley study finds homes within a mile lose 7.2% of their value. Abbott promised setbacks in June and says legislators need more information first.
Rep. Harriet Hageman, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, let Wyoming PBS's debate deadline pass without responding. The station doesn't hold one-candidate debates, so it canceled the Senate debate. She skipped the 2022 general-election debate and both PBS debates in 2024 too.
Alaska's biggest seafood processors warned in 2025 that their industry was 'uniquely vulnerable' to a trade war. Sen. Dan Sullivan then voted against all five Senate resolutions to end Trump's tariff emergencies. Lisa Murkowski voted for all five.
A Wisconsin Muslim group condemned Rep. Derrick Van Orden's remarks on a radio show. Instead of walking them back, he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that Islam 'is a violent religion' — and dodged when asked about his own Muslim constituents.
At two campaign stops, the Republican nominee for New Mexico governor listed Medicaid, SNAP and free child care, then said 'we empower this type of failure' and that people have been 'convinced that this is a lifestyle.' Hundreds of thousands of New Mexicans rely on them.
Trump told communities that turning down a data center means choosing to be poor. A new UC Berkeley study of 346 large data centers found that homes within 3 miles lost about 3% of their value, homes within a mile lost 7.2%, and the local costs outweighed the local benefits.
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