In April 2025 he put his name on a letter vowing he would not support any bill reducing Medicaid coverage for vulnerable people. A month later he told a columnist Virginians were protected. Then he voted yes — and 20,859 people in his own district are projected to lose coverage.
Rutherford says constituents who want a town hall will 'scream and holler, and act like fools.' His Republican primary opponent, Mark Kaye, launched his campaign with this: 'In 10 years of service, this guy hasn't held a single town hall meeting.'
The bill the Tennessee freshman is co-leading turns Trump's bitcoin executive order into law. He sold it as a fix for the national debt — but its text forbids selling the bitcoin, for any purpose, for at least two decades.
Asked about Speaker Mike Johnson's plan for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, Wittman put a phone to his ear and pretended to talk. The camera could see his screen. There was no call.
The private prison company CoreCivic just posted one of the best quarters in its history off the ICE detention buildup. Its outgoing CEO, its incoming CEO, and its PAC all gave money to the Tennessee freshman who sits on the committee that oversees ICE.
Police and Trooper Support PAC and Support America's Police PAC raised millions from retirees, spent most of it on their own phone banks, and recorded the biggest outside spending in Rutherford's FEC file. The same days, the same dollars were booked supporting a Democrat.
In April 2025 Estes joined the Republican delegation to El Salvador while the Trump administration was defying a 9-0 Supreme Court order. He posed for the embassy photo, and his office wouldn't answer a single question about it.
Two months into chairing the House Social Security Subcommittee, Estes went on TV to talk about 'efficiency' at the agency he oversees. It then lost 6,645 employees between January and November 2025 — the biggest one-year staff drop in its history.
In June 2026 Estes led a letter asking RFK Jr. to reinstate the 2019 Title X 'Protect Life Rule.' The last time that rule was in force, an estimated 981 clinics walked out of the program and it served 2.5 million fewer patients.