Two weeks after Liberation Day, Sen. Katie Britt's office quietly asked for tariff help for Airbus, Novelis, Kronospan and TNT Fireworks. Then she voted four times to keep the tariffs on everyone else.
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Susan Collins has spent years telling voters she is a defender of abortion rights, but when it matters most, she keeps selling women out.
Scott Perry cosponsored a national abortion ban five times, then told voters he doesn't support one. Rob Bresnahan swore off a federal abortion ban and voted for a federal abortion bill three months later. Darren Bailey, Stacy Garrity, Kelly Ayotte and Joe Lombardo all ran on ending or restricting abortion — and discovered moderation the year they needed votes.
In a few days: DHS's own watchdog reported men sleeping on floors and cots in an overcrowded ICE jail, school bus cameras appeared to show an arrest DHS denied, ICE began quietly firing recruits it rushed onto the street, and a federal judge ruled ICE likely broke the First Amendment.
Congress's own watchdog found paid leave for federal workers hit an estimated $9.5 billion in 2025, about $6.7 billion of it from DOGE's 'Fork in the Road' buyout. The personnel office expects the cuts to save $20 billion a year — but GAO says it doesn't even know what the buyouts cost.
In June, 19 Republicans in Congress signed a letter urging the EPA to add mifepristone to its list of possible water contaminants. On September 9 the EPA announced a drinking-water study that includes the two abortion drugs. Environmental health experts say there's no scientific evidence abortion medication harms the environment or people — and five days later, the EPA announced it is scrapping carbon limits on power plants.
Michigan's Republican nominee for governor told Benny Johnson the FBI 'will have a presence' in West and Southeast Michigan leading up to Election Day. Asked about it at a Senate hearing, the FBI director said 'you bet' agents will be there, refused to promise not to interfere in November, and wouldn't say whether Trump lost in 2020.
The Pentagon's inspector general says the Iran war has caused 'strategic inventory shortfalls' and cost up to $3.7 billion in lost equipment, including nearly 60 aircraft. The White House calls shortage claims 'false.' Troops sent CBS photos of wrecked U.S. bases, damage one said 'hasn't been communicated to the American public.'
Robert Aderholt, Speaker Mike Johnson and 11 other tracked Republicans requested a GAO review of abortion coverage in Obamacare plans. Aderholt and Chris Smith then used it to demand 'full Hyde protections for all ACA plans.' GAO's own summary says federal law already bars tax credits from paying for abortion, that insurers must price that coverage at no less than $1 a month, and that almost every plan that covers it is in a state whose law requires coverage.
