A company Rick Jackson owns paid $3 million to settle claims it trapped more than 5,000 foreign health care workers in contracts they couldn't leave — while his campaign ads promised a crackdown on undocumented immigrants.
Abbott courted data centers and let their tax break balloon for eleven years. In August of an election year he announced a pause — and lifelong Republicans in small towns say they can see exactly what it is. His approval with rural voters has fallen 15 points, and he's now one point ahead of a Democrat.
Campaign finance records show Ramaswamy paid nearly $560,000 to V Leasing LLC, whose listed address is a house he owns. A nonprofit watchdog says that if he reimburses himself for the $25 million he loaned his campaign, he will be using donors' money to pay himself.
Jackson's company renewed a Georgia Department of Behavioral Health contract on July 22 — running past the next governor's inauguration. On August 12 he told voters he didn't want 'even the appearance' of an ethics problem.
AT&T, Verizon and the wireless industry's trade group gave Mike Rogers $95,000 over two decades. He wrote a bill to let them hand customer data to the NSA without a warrant — then went to work for AT&T.
A European law says the world's biggest companies have to look for forced labor and child labor in their supply chains. Eight Republicans we track put their names on a bill to open a trade fight over it. The law doesn't touch small businesses at all.
Microsoft alone booked $18.7 billion — the biggest single-year federal tax break any public company has ever recorded. Meanwhile 88 profitable corporations paid zero. ITEP says the 2025 budget bill and the 2017 tax law are part of why.
Tiffany is attacking David Crowley over data centers while taking money from the industry's registered lobbyist — and the coalition that lobbyist works for fought the exact NDA ban and tax change Tiffany now says he supports.
Three roll calls tell the story: yes on the 2005 energy bill loaded with oil and gas subsidies, no on the price gouging ban, no on the energy independence bill the American Petroleum Institute opposed.
