Campaign finance records show Ramaswamy paid nearly $560,000 to V Leasing LLC, whose listed address is a house he owns. A nonprofit watchdog says that if he reimburses himself for the $25 million he loaned his campaign, he will be using donors' money to pay himself.
Barrett is running as a data center fighter. Since then he voted for the tax breaks that handed six companies $83 billion, voted for a ten-year ban on states regulating AI, backed a bill weakening environmental reviews, and took money from Musk, Thiel, Blackstone's CEO and the corporate PACs of Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Oracle.
A Lever investigation found Rogers holds $1.7 to $2.6 million in companies positioned to profit from the AI build-out, including a stake in a Blackstone trust that is 29 percent data centers while Blackstone helps build a $16 billion data center near Ann Arbor. In March he endorsed Trump's plan to speed up data center permitting. On August 20 he called for a one-year moratorium.
Eighty years of federal jobs data, charted. The three best job-creating presidents since World War II are all Democrats. The five worst are all Republicans. And when the numbers went bad last year, Trump fired the person who counts them.
The debt hit $40 trillion on Wednesday. Trump's second term added $3.8 trillion of it in 19 months. Republicans still call themselves the party of fiscal responsibility.
More than 95,000 Arkansans signed a petition to protect their own right to put measures on the ballot. The state counted zero of them. The Secretary of State who made that call used to be Sarah Sanders' lawyer.
71% of Americans don't want a data center near them. Rather than answer them, these members asked the FBI and the Justice Department to investigate who's funding the opposition — while researchers who actually looked for a Chinese campaign said: 'We haven't found much.'
Walz signed an order blocking the Twin Metals copper-nickel mine upstream from the Boundary Waters. It dies 90 days into the next governor's term. Demuth is 'pro-mining, all mining, including Twin Metals' — and says it can be done 'safer than any other place in the country if not the world.'
At a Lea County GOP meeting in Hobbs, a voter asked Hull to commit to working with Greg Abbott to reduce Texans coming to New Mexico for abortions. He said 'absolutely' — three times — and 'I'm pro-life, so we're gonna see what we can do.' A week later he told a reporter the question was about something else.