In April 2025 Hern joined a congressional tour of El Salvador's CECOT prison. Asked about it, his office said only that it could not confirm his location. Days later he went on Newsmax and said of the men held there: 'These folks will never see the light of day.'
Bloomberg reported that Hern pushed to make it easier for franchises to get pandemic loans — and a company he controls got $1.07 million, forgiven. Two years later he attacked student loan relief, and the White House replied with the exact number: $1,082,302.
Edison Chouest Offshore has spent more than $7 million on parties, PACs and members of the committees that oversee the Coast Guard — then sold the Coast Guard a broken icebreaker for $125 million. Today the man holding the House gavel over the Coast Guard takes more money from Chouest than from any other employer.
Leading the Future — funded by Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI's president and Palantir's co-founder — exists to stop states and cities from writing their own AI rules. It's running ads for Hern from before his primary through November. Meanwhile Oklahoma City, Edmond, Broken Arrow and Luther are all pausing data centers.
A 40-year law enforcement veteran struck a recording device out of a woman's hand in a Capitol hallway. She says she filed a police report. His response was to call her a China-backed protester and lump her in with the Chinese Communist Party and Hamas.
After the president said six Democratic veterans had committed sedition 'punishable by DEATH,' one of them was Reschenthaler's neighbor in western Pennsylvania. Three other Pennsylvania Republicans managed to say political violence is wrong. Reschenthaler used his JAG credentials to certify Trump instead.
At a June 2026 courthouse event, his chief of staff told reporters the congressman would only take questions about one grant — then Reschenthaler went behind closed doors. It fits a seven-year pattern: no in-person town halls, about 40 refused TV interview requests, and a tweet about defending the free press.
ICE zip-tied two Hancock High students in Diamondhead as their school bus pulled up. Mississippi's two senators got them out. Their own congressman — a former sheriff — said his office was monitoring the situation.
He signed the term-limits pledge and honored it in each of his first three terms. In his fourth, he skipped it for eight months — but found time to help rename an airport after Trump. Then a billboard appeared on I-70, a reporter asked him about it, and eleven days after that story ran he signed on.