The Speaker of the House headlined a Harding campaign breakfast built around one small, temporary tax break from Trump's budget bill. The same bill could cost Nebraska up to $4 billion in Medicaid, and 18,000 fewer Nebraskans are getting food assistance than a year earlier.
Harding's pitch is that Congress has 'turned the public's trust into personal benefit' by trading stocks. For ten months he ignored the federal law requiring him to tell Nebraska voters what he owns — until Democrats referred him to the Justice Department.
On the same telephone town hall where Pillen used an ableist slur three times, he waved off Nebraska's $471.5 million budget hole, saying the press 'tries to say that we're broke,' said the state has 'bushel baskets' of money, and promised he won't support any candidate who won't back a six-week abortion ban.
Within a day of each other, three House Republicans and a group of senators introduced seven resolutions to strip the clean-air rules that 17 states and D.C. rely on. Two Koch-funded groups were quoted cheering in the press release.
Omaha's Republican congressional candidate joined the vice president's sombrero meme campaign during the 2025 shutdown. The woman who ran the LULAC council he asked to join in 2023 asked him to delete it and apologize. Six months later he told a voter guide that leaders who inflame division erode democracy.
A Wall Street Journal investigation found ICE is paying contractors millions to scan social media around the clock, then using subpoenas to unmask Americans who criticize the agency. Nobody has been charged. That may be the point.
Trump's HHS scrapped the rule capping child care copays at 7% of a family's income. On July 30 the Senate had a chance to undo it. These 14 Republicans we track voted no.
On July 30 the Senate came one vote short of forcing a debate on Trump's unauthorized war with Iran. These 13 Republican senators we track voted no — a week after the House told the president to get out.
A TMZ reporter asked Nebraska's senator about Mitch McConnell's six-week absence from the Senate. Ricketts said he was praying for McConnell, then signaled Capitol Police to block him and a colleague in a public hallway. A day later he apologized.
