A new Homeland Security rule lets officers treat a family's enrollment in Medicaid, CHIP or SNAP as grounds to deny lawful permanent residency. The department's own analysis says federal and state spending could fall by $13.05 billion a year — from households that include U.S. citizens.
A list of the Republicans who voted to block the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act went around X this week. We checked all 42 names against the official roll calls. Every one of them voted against the bill — and the record is worse than the list says.
Days before the 25th anniversary of September 11, Michigan's Republican Senate candidate posted a tribute to a Monroe fire captain who developed cancer after driving to Ground Zero. In 2010, Rogers voted against the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act twice, warning that guaranteed care for sick responders would 'jeopardize the financial health of the United States of America.'
Asa Hutchinson put more than $37 million into zeroing out the CES waiver waitlist in 2021. Four years into Sanders' term it is back above 2,400 people. A Little Rock lawmaker puts the cost of clearing it at $35 to $50 million; her voucher program costs more than $367 million this year.
Texas ranks 40th of 50 on the measures we track, with the second-worst food insecurity and second-worst women's health scores in the country. Greg Abbott signed the abortion ban and the school voucher law, never expanded Medicaid, and now runs on affordability after property tax levies rose to $89.4 billion and home insurance premiums rose 79%. Here is the record, and what each of the seventeen Republicans running for reelection has been busy with.
ProPublica found almost 200 women died after an ectopic pregnancy from 2020 to 2025, about double the previous six years. In states with strict bans the death rate is 13.1 per million live births. In states without one it is 7.1. In Texas, 310 more patients hemorrhaged.
Before Kansas sent him to the Senate, Roger Marshall was an OB-GYN whose practice took more than 700 patients to court over unpaid bills, charged 18 percent interest, garnished their paychecks and bank accounts, and asked judges for arrest warrants when they missed a hearing. One woman was sued over a $129 postpartum visit.
Barr stood with Trump's Medicaid chief and said the cuts aren't cuts. Dr. Oz warned that Kentucky's $212.9 million could be taken back. Beshear's answer: federal rules bar that money from going to financially struggling hospitals.
Termination letters went out August 25 telling grantees their work no longer matched the administration's priorities. The programs did cancer screenings, postpartum home visits, first-responder suicide prevention and infant mortality work. The office now lists two funding opportunities for the year.
