Microsoft alone booked $18.7 billion — the biggest single-year federal tax break any public company has ever recorded. Meanwhile 88 profitable corporations paid zero. ITEP says the 2025 budget bill and the 2017 tax law are part of why.
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.
NBC News obtained the 53 names referred to Paxton's office. One was charged with noncitizen voting. At least five were listed as American citizens in prior court records. Even the Heritage Foundation counts fewer than four such cases a year nationwide.
Campaigning before Florida's GOP primary, Donalds attacked his likely opponent over transgender kids and claimed America's largest doctors' group had come around to his position. The American Medical Association says it still believes families and doctors should decide together.
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.
Gas hit $4.06 a gallon, the highest mid-August price ever recorded. Asked about high pump prices on national TV, Nebraska's congressman called it the hand you're dealt — after voting six times to protect the tariffs raising prices, voting to keep U.S. forces in the war, and taking $48,340 from pro-Israel PACs.
A Rockford man convicted of sexually abusing a student at the high school where he taught has given Darren Bailey's campaigns money three times since 2022. Bailey visited his church in June. His campaign says it didn't know — after a reporter called.
Arkansas expects 50,000 kids on Educational Freedom Accounts this year, at a cost of more than $367 million — ten times what the program cost in year one. Only 12% of participants came from a public school.
Republicans put a 12-year cap on congressional service to a House vote in 1995. Four of these men were there for it. Two of them are now in year 45. And five Republicans currently cosponsor a three-term cap while serving their 7th, 10th and 17th terms.
