Homeland Security says it is 'NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake' and 'does not zip tie or restrain children.' ProPublica counted 506 Americans held by immigration agents since January 2025 — at least 70 of them children and teens, and roughly a dozen deported.
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86% of Americans want members of Congress to stop trading stocks while writing the laws that move the market.
Elon Musk's DOGE team pushed the IRS to share its data. The IRS's top privacy officer says she quit rather than help send ICE taxpayers' addresses. A federal judge later found the IRS broke the law about 42,695 times doing exactly that.
Weeks after Trump said he was replacing her, Kristi Noem's Homeland Security Department agreed to buy five planes from a firm run by one of her donors, at prices aviation experts say were millions above market. The luxury 737 comes with a bar, two bedrooms and a manta-ray-skin table.
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John Rutherford has been in office for ten years and hasn't held a single in-person town hall meeting.
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Carlos Gimenez's administration, while he was Miami-Dade mayor, quietly extended a $130 million airport contract for MCM just months after the company's pedestrian bridge collapsed in Miami and killed six people.
Indiana's own Medicaid agency says 58,000 people on the Healthy Indiana Plan don't meet the federal work rule that takes effect January 1 — up to 12% of the program. All seven of Indiana's Republicans in the House voted for the law that created it.
Bryan Steil told constituents a federal rural health fund 'provides an additional $50 billion annually.' It's $10 billion. His newsletter skipped the law he voted for — the biggest Medicaid rollback in history — and the 63,000 Wisconsin adults state officials say are at immediate risk of losing coverage.
In the primary, Ken Paxton attacked John Cornyn for running on 'D.C. establishment' money. At a private Washington fundraiser, he admitted D.C. now controls his own message — after Republicans spent $122 million backing him in September, only $1.2 million of it from his own campaign.