The CDC's civil-service workforce fell from 12,705 to about 8,895 between March 2025 and May 2026, according to the union representing its workers. At least eighteen of its divisions lost every employee. That's the agency meant to protect us from measles, food poisoning and the flu.
With the Strait of Hormuz closed and gas prices up, Trump approved new fuel-economy rules that, as proposed, cut the target for new cars from 50.4 to 34.5 miles per gallon. The government's own analysis says a 2031 car would burn about $1,400 more in gas over its life and the country will be more exposed to oil shocks.
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John James went to Washington to raise cash from the lobbyists of Flock, the license-plate camera company that towns across Michigan are shutting down over privacy concerns.
Cindy Hyde-Smith, Trent Kelly, Michael Guest and Mike Ezell all voted against extending the tax credits that kept Affordable Care Act plans affordable. Once the credits ran out, enrollment in Mississippi fell by about 70,000 people — nearly one in four.
Courts ruled at least four times that Gov. Sarah Sanders couldn't take control of Arkansas prisons away from the Board of Corrections. So she replaced the board members who sued her, and her new majority signed a deal declaring the laws constitutional. A judge threw it out.
Records requests to FEMA, three North Carolina agencies and 12 western counties found no direct contact with Whatley at all. The one exception: six texts and 38 minutes of calls with a single state adviser, who kept asking him for help.
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Victoria Spartz's campaign cut a $30,000 check to her husband for so-called "rent" — "back rent," she claimed, for months her own past filings had already told regulators were donated for free.
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Republicans pretend to care about government waste.
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Mike Rogers tells Michigan voters he put himself through college building Chrysler Sebring convertibles on an auto plant assembly line.