Husted's own ethics filings show JobsOhio gave him gifts in 2021, 2022 and 2023 while he was Ohio's lieutenant governor. By 2023 the group's board chairman was a paid Intel lobbyist working Husted's office. Neither Husted nor JobsOhio will say what the gifts were or what they were worth.
The House passed a resolution ordering U.S. forces out of the Iran war in July. The Senate finally voted on it September 24 and it failed 49-50. Fourteen senators on our report cards voted no — including Jon Husted, who said two days earlier the war 'needs to come to an end as quickly as possible.'
Sen. Jon Husted wants the war over 'as quickly as possible.' Rep. Andy Biggs says he doesn't 'support the war, per se.' Speaker Mike Johnson says it's time to 'bring that to a resolution.' Every time Congress voted on ending it, all three voted no.
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Jon Husted claims Sherrod Brown "voted to close down 23 power plants" and turned Ohio into an energy importer.
They're deleting Trump from their websites, calling for an end to his Iran war, and telling him his immigration crackdown went too far. Every one of them who was in Congress voted for Trump's budget bill, and every House member among them voted for $70 billion more for ICE.
Husted told an energy summit that Brown 'voted to close down 23 power plants' and turned Ohio from an electricity exporter into an importer. Cleveland.com checked: Congress doesn't vote to close plants, and Ohio has imported power in 63 of the last 65 years.
A chief of staff in a group chat with Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer. A political director whose profile picture showed Hitler's SS. A student outreach recruit who asked whether Jews should be sent to North Korea. A swastika flag in a congressman's office. Eight Republicans on this site, one answer.
Biden's EPA estimated the power plant carbon rules would prevent up to 1,200 early deaths and 360,000 cases of asthma symptoms in 2035 alone. On September 14, Lee Zeldin announced they're gone. Fifteen Republicans we track cheered the repeal in the EPA's own press release; four signed a letter asking the EPA to hurry up.
While he was Ohio's lieutenant governor, Husted took a paid seat on the board of a bank his own administration regulated. Heartland Bank then gave his political committee $492,000 — and kept giving after he moved to the U.S. Senate.
In 2021, as director of Ohio's Governor's Office of Workforce Transformation, Husted told a county chamber of commerce that repetitive jobs 'are going away' and would 'be replaced by robots.' He said he didn't think that was bad, because those jobs weren't 'enriching.'
Stephen Woytek ran political operations for Husted's Senate campaign for about a month. His Facebook profile picture showed soldiers from Hitler's personal SS division. It is the second person Husted's campaign has lost in two months over something a reporter found first.
America PAC has reported $5.1 million in independent spending this cycle. Eighteen Republicans with report cards on this site are the main beneficiaries — and nearly three-quarters of the money went to attack ads, not to making a case for them.
An Ohio man died when a driver ran a stop sign. The state patrol's released materials do not tie the crash to the driver's immigration status or his Connecticut license. Husted wants to punish 19 states over it, and this is the second time his campaign has built an immigration attack on a fatal crash.
Five weeks into the boat strike campaign, the Senate voted on whether to pull U.S. forces out of a fight Congress never authorized. It failed 48-51. Fourteen Republican senators we track voted no, and thirteen of them voted no every time it came up again.
On Monday, Trump answered the seven in ten Americans who don't want a data center near them by telling them they're choosing to be poor. Thirteen months earlier he had signed the executive order that hands those data centers federal land, skipped environmental reviews and taxpayer-backed loans.
A NOTUS column collected what Republican candidates have been saying about the cost of living. Twelve of them have report cards on this site. Their answers range from 'earn more' to 'the Democrats invented this term affordability.'
The AP and the Guardian obtained a January 2019 letter in which Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked Samoa's prime minister to let his team study the country's MMR vaccines. He told senators the trip had nothing to do with vaccines. Fourteen Republicans we track voted to confirm him.
Financial disclosures show Husted's wife held as much as $15,000 in Intel stock while he worked to revive the company's stalled Ohio plant and learned in advance about three developments that each sent the share price up. Intel's lobbyist had given his state committee tens of thousands.
The NRSC ad boosting Husted showed crash footage and a family friend's photo of Lynnea, Luke and 1-year-old Logan Soposki without the family's consent. FactCheck.org found no tie between the crash and Sherrod Brown's votes.
Husted's campaign pointed to three of Brown's Senate votes. None of them would have given a single federal benefit to anyone in the country illegally — and three months after the Social Security vote, Brown voted Husted's way on the question Husted was describing.
Ohio farmers are paying more for fertilizer, steel and machinery because of the tariffs, and China stopped buying their soybeans entirely. Husted voted three times to keep the tariffs. Then the president waived the one on imported ground beef.
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.
A year ago Americans were split on AI data centers. Now 75% oppose one in their area. These eight Republicans spent that year helping the build-out along, taking the industry's money, or both. Five have spent the last few weeks repositioning. Three are still making the industry's case.
A leaked National Republican Senatorial Committee memo warns that data centers are an 'anchor' around Husted's campaign and begs AI companies to fix their image. Ohio's data center tax break cost the state $1.57 billion last year — eleven times the projection.
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 2002 Ohio law Husted cosponsored cut the deadline for suing a nursing home in half and barred state inspection reports from the courtroom. He has since taken more than $1 million from the industry.
POLITICO asked all 16 whether they'd return money from a congressman accused of assaulting his ex-wife and their young child. Brad Finstad returned $5,000. Mike Lawler said no. The other 14 wouldn't say.
ICE plans to spend up to $20 million on gloves that deliver painful electric shocks — ten times what Susan Collins points to as the de-escalation reform that justified her vote. Here are the 201 Republicans with report cards on this site who voted for the money.
New Mexico sued the Justice Department on August 5 for stonewalling its criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's ranch. On August 8, the Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general anyway.
Todd Blanche was confirmed as attorney general 50-49 before dawn on Saturday. Fourteen Republicans we track voted yes — and thirteen of them had already voted to put him at the Justice Department once before.
Before leaving town for a month of vacation, the Senate held an overnight vote on a brand-new photo ID bill written by Ohio Sen. Jon Husted. It failed. Fifteen Republicans we track voted to advance it anyway.
Within a day of each other, three House Republicans and a group of senators introduced seven resolutions to strip the clean-air rules that 17 states and D.C. rely on. Two Koch-funded groups were quoted cheering in the press release.
One Nation, the Senate GOP's dark money arm, runs at least six websites that look like local newspapers. They exist to flatter Dan Sullivan, Susan Collins, Jon Husted, and Ashley Hinson — and the ads that push them never say who owns them.
A Wall Street Journal investigation found ICE is paying contractors millions to scan social media around the clock, then using subpoenas to unmask Americans who criticize the agency. Nobody has been charged. That may be the point.
Trump's HHS scrapped the rule capping child care copays at 7% of a family's income. On July 30 the Senate had a chance to undo it. These 14 Republicans we track voted no.
On July 30 the Senate came one vote short of forcing a debate on Trump's unauthorized war with Iran. These 13 Republican senators we track voted no — a week after the House told the president to get out.
Ohio Sen. Jon Husted has voted no on all 13 Senate votes this year on resolutions to pull U.S. forces out of Iran — while oil companies making record profits off that war put $220,000 behind his reelection.
As Ohio House speaker, Husted stripped the one-year window that would have let survivors of clergy sexual abuse sue after their deadline had passed. Survivors filled the Statehouse halls. He took a side door into the chamber, and they sued him for meeting behind closed doors.
Husted's campaign has taken $69,750 from the tech and utility companies at the center of Ohio's data center fight — seven years after he defended Google's $43.5 million tax break.
Ohio ranks 35th of 50 on the measures we track — and its Republicans in Congress just voted to make Medicaid, food aid, and jobs worse.
Ohio saw the steepest Affordable Care Act enrollment drop in the country — 32.4%, nearly a third of enrollees gone — after Jon Husted and Ohio's senators let health subsidies expire and voted for Trump's budget bill.
In the early morning of June 5, the Senate voted 52-47 to pour nearly $70 billion into ICE and Border Patrol with no oversight, no transparency, and a new slush fund for punishing 'non-cooperating' cities. Here are the senators with report cards on this site who voted yes.
In February 2026, Trump bombed Iran without Congress's approval. These Republicans cheered it on, blocked every effort to stop it, and left us paying the price at the pump.
Sen. Jon Husted's senior adviser took $22,652 from a Columbus lobbying firm while working in the senator's office. A formal ethics complaint now names Husted himself.
One day after the Senate told Trump to get U.S. forces out of the Iran war, these Republicans helped block a second resolution — handing Trump a win and ducking Congress's duty to decide on war.
The Senate blocked the fix and the House passed a fake one. Here's every Republican we track who voted to let ACA premiums more than double.
