Husted was one of 14 statewide candidates invited to answer pre-written questions from Ohio's disability community on Aug. 20. He didn't show. At 8:19 that night he posted photos from a shooting range.
Constituents protested outside Carey's Columbus office over his vote for Trump's budget bill. The event's organizers counted 12% of households in Ohio's 15th District on SNAP and $40.4 million in special education funding at risk. Carey's office did not respond to a request for comment.
In 2007, Texas built the largest state cancer research program in American history. It passed overwhelmingly, and 61% of voters approved it. Paxton was one of just 26 no votes — and in the same session he helped kill the state's mandate for the vaccine that prevents cervical cancer.
The enhanced ACA tax credits expired and enrollment fell 12% nationwide — 32% in Ohio and Oklahoma. Here is the collapse state by state, and the fourteen Republicans who voted for it.
Alabama's ACA enrollment fell 23% after Congress let the enhanced tax credits expire. Four Alabama Republicans voted for a bill that didn't extend them, one skipped the vote, and Tommy Tuberville helped filibuster the real fix.
Lahn ran the Koch group's Montana branch and fought Medicaid expansion there. Now he runs for Iowa governor as an anti-corporate populist — while Koch is one of four firms holding 84% of North America's nitrogen fertilizer capacity.
ACA enrollment in Wisconsin fell 16% after Republicans let the enhanced subsidies expire. A DeForest childcare owner doubled her insurance stipend, lost staff and closed a classroom. Tiffany is defending the vote.
Roughly $900 billion cut from Medicaid, plus expired ACA subsidies, has stripped coverage from about 8 million people. These seven wrote the rules, broke written promises, or voted for the cuts and then backed bills to clean up the damage.
A bill in Congress would point state Medicaid fraud investigators at the people who apply for Medicaid. Right now those investigators chase companies that overbill and caregivers who hurt patients — and they bring back $4.64 for every $1 they cost.
