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Trump's Budget Bill Will Likely Force States to Cut Medicaid Payments to Doctors and Hospitals by More Than $50 Billion a Year. 76 Republicans We Track From the Hardest-Hit States Voted for It.

Trump's Budget Bill Will Likely Force States to Cut Medicaid Payments to Doctors and Hospitals by More Than $50 Billion a Year. 76 Republicans We Track From the Hardest-Hit States Voted for It.

A new Health Affairs analysis finds the 2025 budget bill's limits on Medicaid payments will likely force three dozen states to cut what they pay doctors and hospitals by more than $50 billion a year, starting in 2028. Fewer providers are likely to take Medicaid patients. These 76 Republicans on our report cards, from the 15 states facing the biggest cuts, voted yes.

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Sixteen Republicans on This Site Have Refused to Debate Their Opponents This Year. Two More Said No This Week.

Jeff Hurd declined televised debate invitations and agreed to one 30-minute session before a friendly audience instead. John McGuire says he'll debate when his opponent apologizes for raising a BlackRock sale the disclosure records in his wife's retirement account. They join fourteen Republicans we have already documented ducking the one event they can't script.

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Robert Aderholt Says a Report He and 12 Other Republicans We Track Requested Shows Taxpayers Are 'Subsidizing' Abortion. The Report Says Federal Subsidies Can't Pay for It.

Robert Aderholt Says a Report He and 12 Other Republicans We Track Requested Shows Taxpayers Are 'Subsidizing' Abortion. The Report Says Federal Subsidies Can't Pay for It.

Robert Aderholt, Speaker Mike Johnson and 11 other tracked Republicans requested a GAO review of abortion coverage in Obamacare plans. Aderholt and Chris Smith then used it to demand 'full Hyde protections for all ACA plans.' GAO's own summary says federal law already bars tax credits from paying for abortion, that insurers must price that coverage at no less than $1 a month, and that almost every plan that covers it is in a state whose law requires coverage.

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Cindy Hyde-Smith Was Recorded Suggesting Her Opponent's Supporters May Have Been Involved in a Shooting Near Her Home. It Happened Two Years Before He Ran.

Cindy Hyde-Smith Was Recorded Suggesting Her Opponent's Supporters May Have Been Involved in a Shooting Near Her Home. It Happened Two Years Before He Ran.

In audio from an August 31 campaign stop, Hyde-Smith brought up the 2023 gunfire near her Brookhaven home, said the shooter was 'in prison where he belongs' — then said Scott Colom's supporters could 'get caught up in it.' Colom didn't enter the race until September 2025. Her campaign won't say what she meant.

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Republicans Running in 2026 Keep Manufacturing Their Opponents: A Doctored Flag, an AI Monologue, a Photoshopped Prison Uniform, and a Website Pretending to Be the Other Guy's

Greg Abbott's campaign used AI to swap an American flag for a transgender flag in a photo of his opponent talking to a child about a closed school. Ken Paxton scripted a speech his opponent never gave. Marsha Blackburn put hers in a prison jumpsuit. Cindy Hyde-Smith registered a domain in her opponent's name.

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Cindy Hyde-Smith Launched a Website Made to Look Like Her Opponent's. Its Headline Attack Cites a Letter in Which the Word Surgery Never Appears.

Cindy Hyde-Smith Launched a Website Made to Look Like Her Opponent's. Its Headline Attack Cites a Letter in Which the Word Surgery Never Appears.

Her campaign registered ColomForSenate.com to imitate Scott Colom's real site, ScottColom.com, and calls him the 'transgender defender' who 'pushed radical sex change surgeries for children.' The 2021 letter it cites is the only document linked anywhere on the site, and the word surgery does not appear in it once.

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Fourteen Republican Senators We Track Confirmed RFK Jr. After He Said His Samoa Trip Had 'Nothing to Do With Vaccines.' He Had Already Written the Prime Minister Asking to Study Samoa's MMR Vaccines.

Fourteen Republican Senators We Track Confirmed RFK Jr. After He Said His Samoa Trip Had 'Nothing to Do With Vaccines.' He Had Already Written the Prime Minister Asking to Study Samoa's MMR Vaccines.

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.

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Three Out of Four Americans Oppose Data Centers Near Their Homes. These Eight Republicans Spent the Year Helping the Build-Out. Five Have Since Discovered Concerns.

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.

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