On a telephone town hall, an elderly constituent asked Mackenzie his stance on spending $87 billion on the Iran war while Social Security's trust fund runs dry. He talked about protecting seniors and modernizing the military, and never said where he stands on the war. Hours later he voted against pulling U.S. forces out of Iran.
Constituents have protested nearly every Monday for over a year asking Meuser to hold an open town hall. He calls his critics 'the same 40 people that write nasty things on my social media' and says showing up wouldn't be productive.
Adam Kidan pleaded guilty in the Jack Abramoff scandal and was ordered to pay $21.7 million in restitution. He donated to Mackenzie's joint fundraising committee on June 30. Trump pardoned him on July 3.
Five Republicans in Congress had SpaceX money on the line — four of them bought in the week of the IPO while sitting on committees that oversee parts of the company's business. Six weeks later, every one of them voted for a stock-trading bill that bans new purchases but lets them keep what they already own.
A $10 million grant to clear dead trees in the Superior National Forest was frozen by DOGE. Now those woods are burning — and the congressman who cheered DOGE on is pointing at Canada.
On July 23 the House voted 214-208 to order U.S. forces out of Trump's unauthorized war with Iran. These 185 Republicans we track voted no — the second time the House has told the president to stop, and the second time they tried to stop it from saying so.
Rep. Lloyd Smucker cast a 216-214 vote for a budget plan that fast-tracks the SAVE America Act's voting restrictions and $73 billion more for the war with Iran — calling it 'a great bill.'
As health premiums spike across central Pennsylvania, Rep. Scott Perry co-signed an op-ed calling it a 'colossal mistake' to make permanent the ACA tax credits that kept his own constituents covered.
Dan Meuser chairs the House subcommittee that oversees the SEC — and his family just bought up to $50,000 in Elon Musk's SpaceX, a company loaded with government contracts.
