Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Connecticut rank #1 through #4 on the 17 measures we track. Between them they send 25 people to Congress — and not one is a Republican. The four worst states send 24 Republicans.
Steve Scalise, Virginia Foxx and Bryan Steil pitched the SAVE America Act by comparing voting to buying unlimited pasta. The comparison leaves out the part that would block millions of citizens.
On July 23 the House voted 214-208 to order U.S. forces out of Trump's unauthorized war with Iran. These 182 Republicans we track voted no — the second time Congress has told the president to stop, and the second time they tried to stop Congress from saying it.
We all deserve access to quality healthcare so we can live healthy and productive lives.
Steve Scalise disagrees:
He voted to cut more than $1 trillion in federal health care and food assistance as part of the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act"
He voted to let ACA tax credits expire, increasing health costs for millions of Americans, driving many of them to switch to cheaper plans or abandon health insurance coverage altogether. And the less people there are with coverage, the higher the rest of our premiums will be.
He wants to repeal the ACA, reduce Medicare and Medicaid spending, and add work requirements to Medicaid.
Wants to Gut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security
Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security aren't handouts. They're earned benefits that we pay into out of every single paycheck, our entire working lives, so that we can see a doctor, take care of our parents, and retire with dignity instead of going bankrupt when we get old or sick.
For years, Steve Scalise and his party have been quietly laying the groundwork to gut these programs. Now they've said the quiet part out loud.
They admitted the plan. Speaker Mike Johnson told the "Moon Griffon Show" that "entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid and things like Social Security ... have to be adjusted and fixed," and that "We have a plan to do that next year ... desperate times call for desperate measures."
We know what the plan looks like. The Republican Study Committee — a caucus of more than 170 House Republicans that includes Speaker Johnson and his top three deputies in leadership — released a budget calling for raising the Social Security retirement age for future retirees and converting Medicare into a privatized "premium support" model that would hand seniors over to for-profit insurance companies.
They already started. The "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" that Steve Scalise supported cut roughly $1 trillion from Medicaid to help pay for tax cuts for the richest 1 percent.
Even Republicans admit what "reform" means. Sen. Josh Hawley, on the push to "address" and "reform" these programs: "That's usually code for 'cut.' I'm not in favor of that."
It's a broken promise. Donald Trump pledged in 2024, "I will never do anything that will jeopardize or hurt Social Security or Medicare." Steve Scalise and his party are now preparing to do exactly that.
These programs are a promise: work hard, pay in your whole life, and your country will be there for you when you need it. Steve Scalise wants to break that promise so he can keep cutting taxes for billionaires. We deserve better.
We all need to pay our fair share to the government so it can provide the services that benefit all of us.
But billionaires in the U.S. pay a smaller tax rate than most teachers and nurses. That's not fair.
The wealthiest 400 billionaire families in the U.S. paid an average federal individual tax rate of just 8.2 percent. For comparison, the average American taxpayer in the same year paid 13 percent.
23 of the largest and most profitable companies in the US paid no federal corporate income taxes from 2018-2022. And 109 corporations paid zero federal tax in at least one of those years.
The "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" that Steve Scalise supported will reduce taxes for the top 1 percent of taxpayers by more than $1 trillion over the next decade, while raising taxes for the poorest Americans.
Steve Scalise is on the side of the billionaires and big business. We deserve better.
We all deserve clean air, clean water, and a healthy planet to live on.
Steve Scalise has supported the repealing and rolling back of environmental protections and climate change regulations, all so that billionaires and big business can plunder natural resources and destroy our environment in the name of profit.
Scalise flatly rejects the science of climate change. Pressed on CBS This Morning in 2019 on whether he accepted the science, he answered, "we do know that the earth's temperature changes -- it goes up and down," then fell back on the long-debunked myth that "in the 1970's, they said we were entering a new cooling period." He even brushed off Louisiana losing a football field of land an hour to the Gulf as mere "coastal erosion" rather than climate change — this, from a representative whose own coast is disappearing.
We're all going to pay the price for this with increased rates of asthma, cancer, and premature deaths. We deserve better.
A good job where we can make a living to support our families, own a home, and have a good life. That's the American Dream.
Steve Scalise supports policies and an administration that are turning the American Dream into a nightmare.
There were 20.8 million layoffs in the U.S. in 2025
55% of employed Americans say they're concerned about losing their jobs
The unemployment rate is 4.6%, the highest level since the pandemic
In 2025 the U.S. economy averaged just 15,000 jobs added per month, a dramatic decrease from the monthly average of 125,000 the year before Trump took office.
Overall employment for workers without college degrees fell by 361,000 jobs from January to September 2025.
58,000 net manufacturing jobs have been lost from April, when the administration announced "Liberation Day" tariffs, to September 2025.
Worked for Billionaires and Big Business and Not for Us
Our elected officials should work for us, the people.
Steve Scalise works for billionaires and big business, not for us. Since 1990 he has taken more money from the oil and gas industry than any member of the U.S. House except Kevin McCarthy. Look at who some of his top funders are:
American Israel Public Affairs Committee Political Action Committee (AIPAC)
Chevron Employees Political Action Committee
Walmart Inc
Exxon Mobil Corporation Political Action Committee (ExxonMobil PAC)
Apollo Global Management
ConocoPhillips SPIRIT PAC
Lockheed Martin Corporation Employees' Political Action Committee
Andreessen Horowitz
The Home Depot Inc. Political Action Committee
Entergy Corporation Employee Political Action Committee (ENPAC)
Cox Enterprises PAC (COXPAC) Inc.
Steve Scalise is funded by billionaires and big business. No wonder he's not doing anything to improve OUR lives. We deserve better.
Let Elon Musk and DOGE Cut More Than $372 MILLION from Louisiana
We all want a government that works for us as efficiently and effectively as possible. Unfortunately our government doesn't always work that way, so reform is badly needed. Given how big and complicated the government is, it's a tough problem that needs well-thought out solutions, so that we don't make things worse.
That's not what we got.
Steve Scalise stood idly by while billionaire and ketamine-addled chaos monkey Elon Musk and his DOGE goons chainsawed their way through the U.S. government, promising to save the government at least $2 trillion annually in waste, fraud and abuse. Because they had no idea what they were doing and no one to stop them, in the end our government suffered, people suffered, Louisiana suffered, government spending actually went UP and Elon Musk became even richer.
Elon Musk and DOGE:
Had access to and exfiltrated (stole) all our sensitive personal information.
Kneecapped the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which had returned over $26 billion to the American people since 2011.
Attempted to cut $4 billion in funding for medical research.
Will cost the federal government an estimated $500 billion in lost tax revenue (that could pay for programs for us), due to cuts at the IRS.
Laid waste to the employees at several government departments, removing their top experts and most skilled practitioners, and making their services less effective for all of us. This badly affected veterans, who make up 30% of the federal workforce.
We'd like to thank you, Steve Scalise, for doing absolutely nothing while an unelected South African big tech billionaire took a chainsaw to vital U.S. government functions and completely failed to make the government more efficient. We deserve better.
As a member of Congress, part of Steve Scalise's job is to act as a check and balance to the executive branch. He and his fellow members of Congress from Louisiana have completely abdicated their responsibility. These spineless cowards are rubber stamping everything Donald Trump wants to do, no matter how crazy, dangerous or harmful. And we've seen the results. We deserve better.
Protected Pedophiles by Blocking Release of the Epstein Files
Jeffrey Epstein ran a global sex trafficking network that sexually abused dozens of girls and women for decades. The FBI identified at least 35 minors with similar abuse histories. When finally released in 2026, the files — over 3 million pages, 2,000 videos, and 180,000 images — revealed what UN human rights experts called "disturbing and credible evidence" of a possible global criminal enterprise. Those experts said some of the conduct may meet the threshold for crimes against humanity, including sexual slavery, torture, and enforced disappearance.
For months, House Republican leadership blocked every vote to release these files — and Steve Scalise went along.
Steve Scalise voted to block the bipartisan effort to release the Jeffrey Epstein files (Roll Call 194, 211–210), protecting the accused pedophiles and powerful elites that were named in them, including Donald Trump. He never signed the discharge petition or co-sponsored the bipartisan release resolution — only reversing after Donald Trump gave House Republicans permission, 11 months later.
We deserve to feel safe in our neighborhoods, schools, and places of worship.
In order to do that, we need to take real steps to prevent gun violence. And despite what we've been told, it is possible to support the 2nd Amendment and support common-sense gun safety laws at the same time. But Steve Scalise has opposed bipartisan gun safety laws, while offering meaningless thoughts and prayers every time there's a new mass shooting.
Steve Scalise was himself shot and nearly killed in June 2017 at the Congressional baseball practice. Months later, asked on Fox News whether nearly dying — and the Las Vegas massacre days earlier — had changed his views on gun laws, he answered: "I think it's fortified it." His own congressional website credits that record with earning him an A+ rating from the NRA, and since 1990 he has taken more gun rights money than any other member of the U.S. House.
A child or adolescent is killed with a gun every 2 hours and 48 minutes in the U.S.
Age-adjusted firearm homicide rates in the U.S. are 33 times greater than in Australia and 77 times greater than in Germany
Every day, 125 Americans are killed with guns, and more than 200 are shot and wounded
Women in the U.S. are 28 times more likely to be killed with a gun than women in other high-income countries.
Louisiana has about 22.9 gun deaths per 100,000 people — one of the highest rates in the nation, with over 1,000 Louisianians dying from gun violence every year.
Steve Scalise is OK with our kids dying, as long as he has his guns. We deserve better.
America is the land of FREEDOM. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to start a business, freedom to choose your own career path, freedom to make your own medical decisions, freedom to raise your children according to your values, and freedom to pursue happiness. Freedom is what makes America great.
Unless you're a woman and you're making the deeply personal decision about whether to have a baby or not. A decision that will dramatically affect the rest of your life. In that case Steve Scalise thinks that your freedom doesn't matter and that the government should get to control your body. That's not freedom, that's tyranny.
Voted for the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act in January 2025, a bill Reproductive Freedom for All describes as interfering "with the medical practice of abortion care under the threat of severe penalties"
Arkansas House of Representatives candidate (and pastor) Robb Ryerse stated it well: "Abortion should remain safe and legal. These are personal decisions best made by patients, their doctors, and their faith — not politicians. You don't have to agree with every decision someone makes to believe they should be free to make it. That's what personal liberty means." Almost 2/3 of Americans agree and believe that abortion should be legal in all or most cases. But Steve Scalise thinks he knows better, and doesn't believe that we should have the freedom to make our own decisions. We deserve better.
In America our vote represents our will. It gives us the power to make the change that we want to see in the world.
Unfortunately that's not a sentiment that Steve Scalise's billionaire and big business donors can stomach. Because when we have voting power, we use it to make our lives better, and they lose power. Read about all the ways they're trying to take away our voting power on our about page, then come back here.
Steve Scalise has opposed legislation to make voting easier while supporting the SAVE Act, which would force every single American citizen to prove their citizenship status in person when registering to vote or updating their voter registration information. For the vast majority of Americans, this would mean presenting a passport or birth certificate at their local election office. This would disenfranchise millions of U.S. citizens: 146 million Americans do not have a passport, and 69 million women who have married do not have a birth certificate that matches their new legal name. Working-class and low-income Americans would also be disproportionately disenfranchised if the bill became law, as the vast majority of these groups do not possess a passport.
YOU HAVE POWER. Why else do you think Steve Scalise and his bosses are working so hard to take it away? Don't let them. We deserve better.
Whether white, black, or brown, we should all be able to live in America and exercise our constitutional rights without fear that law enforcement will turn on us.
But the current administration has created a secret police force that is abusing their power against anyone who stands in their way, U.S. citizen or not. They claim to be going after "the worst of the worst", but are taking daycare workers, day laborers, grandmas and kids who are valued members of our communities. And Steve Scalise, staunch defender of the Second Amendment to fight back against government tyranny, is doing absolutely nothing while the government tyrannizes us.
ProPublica:They describe the legions of masked immigration officers operating in near-total anonymity on the orders of the president as the crossing of a line that had long set the United States apart from the world's most repressive regimes. ICE, in their view, has become an unfettered and unaccountable national police force.
ProPublica:Accosting people outside of their immigration court hearings where they're showing up and trying to do the right thing and then hauling them off to an immigration jail in the middle of the country where they can't access loved ones or speak to counsel. Bands of masked men apprehending people in broad daylight in the streets and hauling them off. Disappearing people to a third country, to a prison where there's a documented record of serious torture and human rights abuse.
New York Times:Masked and heavily armed, ICE agents are sent to cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles and Minneapolis to terrorize immigrant communities and brutalize people who challenge their efforts to stop and detain anyone deemed suspicious. To expand its reach, ICE greatly lowered its recruitment standards, effectively enlisting anyone who cares to sign up. To attract new officers, ICE advertises the chance to do violence to people deemed "enemies" of the United States, likening civil immigration enforcement to a war on a dangerous, alien force. The result is an agency whose agents' first recourse appears to be violence or the threat of violence.
They are executing American citizens. On January 7, 2026 an ICE agent in Minneapolis murdered an American citizen, a mother of 3, by shooting her in the face as she tried to drive away. Then the killer walked away, and our government lied and tried to gaslight us about what happened. Decent politicians condemned the murder. What did Steve Scalise have to say? Nothing.
They are executing American citizens: Part 2. On January 24, 2026 ICE agents in Minneapolis murdered an American citizen, a 37 year old ICU nurse, who was filming their activity and trying to help others. Then our government lied and tried to gaslight us about what happened.
And the list of the dead keeps growing. ICE agents — on duty and off — keep killing members of our communities, while Steve Scalise says nothing:
On December 31, 2025, an off-duty ICE officer in Northridge, Los Angeles shot and killed Keith Porter Jr., a 43-year-old U.S. citizen and father of two who was born and raised in Compton. Federal officials called it self-defense against an "active shooter," but Porter's family says he was peacefully returning home and never posed a threat — and witnesses reported only three shots, matching his autopsy and contradicting claims of an exchange of gunfire.
On July 7, 2026, an ICE officer in Houston shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old father of three and small-business owner who had lived in the U.S. for 35 years. Agents had been hunting a different white van. Harris County's medical examiner ruled his death a homicide, and his co-workers disputed ICE's claim that he used his vehicle as a weapon.
On July 13, 2026, an ICE agent in Biddeford, Maine shot and killed Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a 26-year-old Colombian father who was legally authorized to work in the U.S. and supported his wife and 3-year-old daughter by delivering food and cleaning a veterinary clinic. He was not the target of ICE's warrant — agents were looking for someone else — and were not wearing body cameras. Even Maine's Republican Senator Susan Collins urged DHS to halt non-urgent vehicle stops in the state.
Louisiana has become the epicenter of ICE detention. More than 7,000 people are detained in Louisiana — the second-most of any state, behind only Texas — and all but one of Louisiana's ten ICE detention centers are run by private companies, where people are held for months or years.
If ICE can murder innocent U.S. citizens without repercussions, what could they do to you? ICE is out of control and a danger to us all - no one is safe. What's Steve Scalise going to do about it? Absolutely nothing. We deserve better.
Voted for an Unnecessary and Unpopular War in Iran
War destroys human lives, families and innocent people, causes economic ruin, and triggers immense suffering. War should always be the option of last resort.
In order to distract from the Epstein Files, Donald Trump started an illegal war of choice with Iran, and now:
We are being dog-walked by Israel, who has been trying to convince presidents to attack Iran forever, and finally found one dumb enough to do so
The American people don't want this war with Iran. But Steve Scalise supports this madness and voted against the War Powers Resolution that would have stopped it. Does Steve Scalise work for Israel or the people of Louisiana? We deserve better.
Avoids His Constituents and Refuses to Hold In-Person Town Halls
Good leaders meet with their constituents and have town halls where citizens can voice concerns, ask questions, and provide input on policies. Steve Scalise doesn't want to hear what we have to say. He only wants to talk to his rich donors or people who agree with him.
Steve Scalise prefers telephone town halls to real in-person meetings with constituents. In February 2017, rather than face the crowds that were confronting Republicans across the country, he held his town hall by conference call — leaving constituents to gather outside his Mandeville district office and shake hands with a cardboard poster of him. His aide told them repeatedly to just call in. "That's a joke," one woman answered. "That's not a town hall meeting."
Steve Scalise is avoiding us because he doesn't care what we think. We deserve better.
Hates Democracy and Tried to Steal the 2020 Election
Steve Scalise didn't just stand by on January 6, 2021 — he helped spread the lies that led to that day's attack on our democracy.
On December 10, 2020, Scalise joined 125 other House Republicans on a Supreme Court amicus brief backing Texas's bid to throw out Biden's wins in four other states.
Hours after the mob was cleared from the Capitol, he voted to reject Arizona's electoral votes, and again a few hours later to reject Pennsylvania's. Both objections failed.
He voted against impeaching Trump for inciting the attack on Congress.
We should hold our leaders to high standards. Steve Scalise has a troubling history that he has never fully answered for. We deserve better.
In 2002, as a state representative, Scalise spoke at a gathering of the European-American Unity and Rights Organization (EURO) — a white supremacist group founded by former KKK leader David Duke. When the speech surfaced in 2014, Scalise said it was "a group whose views I wholeheartedly condemn. It was a mistake I regret."
Earlier in his career, Louisiana political columnist Stephanie Grace has said, Scalise described himself to her as "like David Duke without the baggage."
In August 2020, Scalise tweeted a video of disabled activist Ady Barkan that had been doctored to splice the words "for police" into Barkan's computerized voice, making it sound as though Biden had agreed to defund the police. Twitter flagged it as manipulated media and Scalise deleted it. "I have lost my ability to speak, but not my agency or my thoughts," Barkan responded. "You and your team have doctored my words for your own political gain."
Steve Scalise has spent his career voting to deny equal rights to LGBTQ Americans.
In December 2022, Scalise voted against the Respect for Marriage Act — the law protecting same-sex and interracial marriages — even as 39 of his fellow House Republicans voted for it.
In February 2021, he voted against the Equality Act, which would have barred discrimination against LGBTQ people in employment, housing, and public services.
His record goes back decades. In 2009, Scalise voted against the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act — the bill extending federal hate-crime protections to people targeted for their sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.
We deserve leaders who protect every family's rights — not ones who vote to take them away. We deserve better.
We're all going to pay the price for this with increased rates of asthma, cancer, and premature deaths. We deserve better.
