Greg Abbott has renewed or amended his border disaster proclamation at least 69 times since 2021 — 21 of them since Trump took office and crossings hit record lows. The 'emergency' lets his agencies skip competitive bidding: more than $5 million in no-bid contracts since January 2025, for rifles, apartments and a Ford F-150.
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David Valadao represents more Medicaid patients than any other Republican in the country, and now he is flooding the airwaves with campaign ads promising to protect your healthcare and lower costs.
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Monica De La Cruz rushed to an ICE detention center to personally free a famous mariachi teen after his arrest sparked national outrage.
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Ann Wagner walked into Congress with a few million dollars and today is worth an estimated $26 million, all while chairing the subcommittee that oversees the SEC, the agency that polices Wall Street.
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Florida Congressman Carlos Gimenez voted twice for Donald Trump's budget bill that slashes nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid and $187 billion from SNAP food assistance.
Konstantin Sokolov gave to Trump's White House ballroom days before his company asked Treasury for a license to get around Russia sanctions. He got it in 10 weeks, used it to buy a copper mine from a sanctioned Russian bank, and was put in charge of $201 million in State Department money. FEC records show he also gave to committees raising money for Susan Collins, Pete Ricketts, Dan Sullivan, Vivek Ramaswamy and six more Republicans on this site.
A quarter of U.S. doctors were trained abroad, and they're more likely to work where doctors are scarce. The Trump administration raised the H-1B visa fee to $100,000, and 64% of hospitals that use the program paused, delayed or limited recruiting. The country is already short of primary care for 102 million people.
At least 500,000 voter registrations and updates Texans made through DPS's driver's-license website since October 2025 never reached county election offices. DPS was told about registration problems in March. Abbott, whose appointee runs Texas elections, sent reporters' questions elsewhere. Voting rights groups have now sued.
FEC records show executives at Palantir — which ICE is paying to build its deportation-tracking system — have put $117,250 into Susan Collins's campaign, her leadership PAC and the super PAC re-electing her, including $100,000 from CEO Alex Karp. Executives at the private prison giants CoreCivic and GEO Group gave too. Collins voted for nearly $70 billion for ICE and the Border Patrol and against body cameras.