Tony Gonzales resigned on April 14. Greg Abbott still has not called a special election, and the seat is not on track to be filled until January — a vacancy of roughly 260 days. A Democrat resigned the same day in California; voters there have already picked his replacement.
Kansas is projected to lose $3.9 billion in Medicaid funding under the law Roger Marshall voted for, with $2.7 billion of it coming out of hospitals. Asked about it, Marshall said there are no cuts and that saying otherwise is a lie.
A fundraising email from Michigan's Republican Senate candidate told supporters he saw bin Laden's dead body himself. Rogers was 7,000 miles away, and in 2011 he publicly argued about whether to release the photographs — because a photograph is what he had seen.
On March 23, Gabe Evans phoned the president of UFCW Local 7 and promised to stand with striking JBS workers in Greeley. He never walked the picket line, never sent the letter they asked for, and said nothing publicly for three weeks. FEC records show JBS's PAC gave him $5,000 on February 23.
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H.R. 8646 passed 213-210 on June 4. It comes in $380 million below last year and, in the Appropriations Committee's own words, reduces salaries and expenses "to account for staffing reductions" — the nearly 4,300 FDA and roughly 900 meat-inspection jobs already gone. 188 members with a page on this site voted yes. Four voted no.
On the evening of August 18, Finstad held a $250-to-$10,000 reception at a golf club. His opponent held a free, open town hall the same evening in Courtland. Asked why he won't do town halls, Finstad said the people who want one just want to 'have a hissy fit' — and that he doesn't regret saying it.
More than 100 TRIO programs serving nearly 45,000 low-income, first-generation students were terminated. In California, 13 schools lost $6 million and 7,000 students lost services. The administration now proposes eliminating all $1.2 billion of TRIO.
In a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson, Trump called a raise for federal workers 'unacceptable and ... unfair' because of Biden-era inflation. Inflation has risen from 2.8% when Biden left office to 3.3% last month. The House's own spending bills say nothing — which lets the freeze stand.
