Idaho guardsmen have been policing Washington, D.C. since February under Trump's executive order. The ACLU wants them home. The Pentagon says it won't know the cost until the mission ends. And a D.C. resident has filed a $3 million claim saying Idaho guardsmen injured her.
Nebraskans used ballot initiatives to win paid sick leave and medical cannabis. Pillen signed a bill narrowing the sick leave law and helped kill the cannabis bill. Now, citing a fraud case his own election officials caught, he wants to restrict the petition process itself.
H.R. 10222 would make a whole city — or a whole state — ineligible for any HUD grant. In Montana that money pays for homeless shelters, rapid rehousing and youth homelessness programs. Downing wouldn't answer what it would do to Helena.
The Sports Betting Alliance gave $650,000 to the super PAC electing Ramaswamy. Two bills to legalize online casino gambling are pending in Columbus. A reporter asked him directly. He would not answer.
The No Preference Act would bar every federal agency, including the Pentagon, from favoring a contractor because its workers have a union contract. Stephanie Bice wrote it. Steve Womack, John Rutherford and Jack Bergman signed on.
McGuire's disclosure records an Nvidia purchase on August 18. The first public report that Hugging Face was in play came four days later. Nine days after the purchase, he told ABC13 he doesn't trade stocks at all.
A federal judge blocked the Postal Service's mail-ballot rule on Friday, finding no evidence of mail voting fraud in the record. Twelve Republican states were in court defending it — and asking to be exempted from the block so the rule could run in their states as a test.
Termination letters went out August 25 telling grantees their work no longer matched the administration's priorities. The programs did cancer screenings, postpartum home visits, first-responder suicide prevention and infant mortality work. The office now lists two funding opportunities for the year.
On September 10, 2025, Marshall voted to table the amendment forcing the Justice Department to release the Epstein files. It failed 51-49. Five months earlier, two Blackstone executives whose names appear in those files gave his campaign $13,000.
