Eighty years of federal jobs data, charted. The three best job-creating presidents since World War II are all Democrats. The five worst are all Republicans. And when the numbers went bad last year, Trump fired the person who counts them.
One wrote half of it and voted no. One called it 'inextricably linked' to a recession, then said she led the effort. One got $8.5 billion for his state and didn't show up. Here's the receipt.
Philadelphia's Building Trades endorsed Garrity for treasurer two years ago. Now its leader says he wouldn't back her 'if she ran for dog catcher' — and her spokesman declined to answer whether she'd support right-to-work.
Tenney was one of 187 Republicans who voted against the CHIPS and Science Act. Three and a half years later she claimed credit for the Micron plant it paid for — and PolitiFact called it Half True.
Wisconsin's Act 10 is back before the state Supreme Court, 15 years after it stripped bargaining rights from most public workers. The man who ran it through the Senate is now in Congress — and he has plenty of company.
59% of Nebraska voters tied the minimum wage to the cost of living in 2022. Lawmakers replaced that with a flat 1.75% and created a $13.50 teen wage that stays below today's $15 until 2065. Now the attorney general is suing Omaha and Lincoln for trying to opt out.
Court filings show Homeland Security ran undercover agents into labor meetings and a Minneapolis church, pulled financial records from SEIU and CWA, and showed a grand jury a chart linking the teachers' union to a criminal conspiracy.
Two executive orders, plus an earlier move against TSA screeners, stripped collective bargaining from 84.4% of the unionized federal workforce. A bipartisan bill to restore it passed the House 231-195 — every Democrat for it, 195 Republicans against — and the Senate has sat on it for eight months.
Begich has voted seven times to protect Trump's tariffs, calling them a way to restore American manufacturing. The IT company that made him millions had around 150 employees, most of them in India and Croatia, and, the Anchorage Daily News reported, no Alaskans on the payroll but himself.
