The Army cancelled more orders of an armored truck it called 'excess.' Congress put $345 million back. Afterward, the truck maker's executives and PAC sent tens of thousands to Susan Collins, who chairs Senate Appropriations, and Ken Calvert, who chairs the House defense spending subcommittee.
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Max Miller is under House Ethics investigation for domestic violence, after his ex-wife accused him of throwing scalding water on her, putting a gun to her head, and breaking their toddler's collarbone.
Gimenez voted yes in May and again in July 2025 on the budget bill that cuts close to $1 trillion from Medicaid and $187 billion from SNAP. Since then Florida's SNAP rolls have fallen fastest in Monroe County, which is in his district, and on October 1 refugees and asylees started losing Medicaid. The biggest cuts are still to come.
MCM built the FIU pedestrian bridge that fell onto traffic in March 2018. The firm is run by cousins of Gimenez's wife, and both of his sons have worked for it. In early 2019, months after OSHA cited MCM and as the firm went bankrupt, Mayor Gimenez's administration extended MCM's $130 million contract at Miami International Airport.
His own financial disclosure shows a $145,902 Miami fire pension and a $79,751 Florida state pension. His wife draws a third. In January he qualified for a fourth, from Congress. As Miami-Dade mayor, he proposed cutting fire trucks while drawing the fire pension, and got commissioners to approve his own 67% raise, which grew his pension.
Gimenez's bill to protect a Miccosukee village in the Everglades from flooding passed both chambers without a single objection. Trump vetoed it to punish the tribe for suing over Alligator Alcatraz, and 188 House Republicans voted to keep it dead. It was the closest Gimenez has come to writing a law.
At a Nixon Foundation summit on October 1, West Virginia Rep. Riley Moore said Nixon was 'absolutely couped out of office' and 'framed' in Watergate. Nixon's own Oval Office recording shows him plotting to use the CIA to stop the FBI's investigation — a tape the Supreme Court unanimously ordered him to hand over.
On a 2023 podcast, while discussing a UFC fighter's argument that women should lose the right to vote, Brandon Herrera said: 'I'm not saying that the 19th amendment was a mistake. I'm just saying the country went to shit after.' He is the Republican nominee in Texas's 23rd District, running against a woman, with Trump and Speaker Johnson behind him.
The Big Beautiful Bill cuts Medicaid by close to $1 trillion over 10 years, and the Congressional Budget Office says the law will leave 10 million more people uninsured. Republicans made sure the biggest cut doesn't start until 2027 — after the midterms. 198 Republicans on this site voted for it.